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Rameau Suites from Operas

These two suites of airs de ballet from Rameau's Dardanus and Les Indes galantes were recorded during the 1960s when...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A Minor, Op 50

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio is a masterpiece of the genre. The finest modern recording has been on BIS with Freddy Kempf...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2008

Emmanuel Feuermann - Recital

Feuermann's early death in 1942 at the age of 39 was undoubtedly a severe blow to the world of music....

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Rossini L'Italiana in Algeri

This recording of L'italiana in Algeri was made in the Teatro de la Pergola, Florence in the summer of 1963....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1989

Simpson String Quartets

Simpson composed his first three quartets between 1951 and 1954. On the occasion of their performance at the Arts Council...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Rosa Ponselle - Verdi Arias

'Still adored by many as the greatest female singer of the 20th century.' So says the introductory note, and the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

Mendelssohn Songs and Duets, Vol 4

With its promised sequel, this fourth volume is an important extension of the Mendelssohn Song Edition, which may have been...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2009

Suk Orchestral Works

This is exceedingly welcome and an exciting follow-up to Pesek's superb account of Suk's Asrael Symphony from a couple of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1994

Bortnyansky Liturgy & Podgaits Spring Mass

The music of Ephrem Podgaits (b.1949) is new to me, but on the evidence of his Missa Veris (“Spring Mass”)...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Angela Lear - The Original Chopin Volume 4

Angela Lear’s scholarly enterprise leads her to a fruitful and provocative quest concerning the composer’s precise intentions. At her best...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1999

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