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Glazunov Symphonies

It may seem a little unkind to observe that so far as concert performances are concerned, Glazunov's symphonies have been...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1986

Schumann Complete Lieder, Vol 3

This offering places Banse and Johnson among the most thoughtful and convincing of Schumann interpreters in the history of recording...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1999

Angels Hide Their Faces

Definitely a stimulant: a programme with something to say, and performances that are eager to say it. Affinities between Purcell...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 19 & 25

It is over four years since the Viennese pianist, Till Fellner, winner of the 1993 Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1998

(Les) Voix Humaines

If he were so minded, Jordi Savall might hand copies of this CD out to new acquaintances as the musical...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1998

Bach Inventions

Going back and forth between Jan Novák’s urbane, witty and utterly inventive 1960 harpsichord Inventions and a selection from Bach’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2007

Brahms Works for two pianos & one piano, four hands

Boyce's eight symphonies on one CD means that they certainly are not symphonies in the classical sense and we are...

Reviewed in issue 5/1986

Saint-Saens Samson and Dalila

This over­the­top‚ Technicolor spectacular is notable mainly for preserving for posterity Domingo’s splendidly virile‚ quasi­heroic and impassioned Samson. At the...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Shostakovich Symphony No 7

In 1986 Kiev-born Roman Kofman made an exceptional recording of Valentin Silvestrov’s Fifth Symphony (Melodiya, 4/98 – nla). Working in...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2006

Rossini Petite messe solennelle

Rossini's Petite messe solennelle was originally written for the piquant assemblage of 12 voices two pianos, and harmonium; a scale...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1995

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