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(The) Country of the Stars

The Ionian Singers have been expanding the British choral repertoire for some two decades‚ and this disc of recent commissions...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Wagner Excerpts II

The Berlin Philharmonic are on excellent form for their latest Wagner compilation, and the RCA producers have returned to the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2000

Brahms Piano Works

I have not previously met these two works together on a disc and rather like the coupling. They are both...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1992

Tchaikovsky Songs

Elisabeth Soderstrom's two Tchaikovsky recitals with Vladimir Ashkenazy were a splendid exploration of some beautiful songs-36 in all, of which...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1994

Franck Symphony in D minor; Psyché

Bernstein's account of this symphony on DG is so firmly controlled and has such an urgent sense of drama and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1987

Scriabin The Complete Mazurkas

The German critic, Rellstab, may have exclaimed in horror over what he saw as Chopin's morbid transformation of Field's innocence...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1994

Beethoven Cello Sonatas, etc

A case of deja entendu here, since I reviewed these performances when they originally came out. I enjoyed them then...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1995

Verdi Ernani

Richard Osborne received this set with very modified rapture when it first appeared here, on Hungaroton, in 1983 and I...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996

Resonanser

At first glance this might seem a curious concept, Swedish folksongs as sung – exceptionally so, let me say straightaway...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2009

French Viola da gamba and Harpsichord Works

Jordi Savall's recording of music from Marais's fourth book of pieces de viole is superb: elegant fluent, spirited and evocative....

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

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