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Beecham in Chicago

Here is a rare quarry of film footage which can hardly fail to delight anyone who is interested in Beecham,...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

With this issue Mikhail Rudy and the St Petersburg Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons complete their well-recorded EMI cycle of the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1995

Wagner (Der) fliegende Höllander

Here we have Wagner’s original plan for his first masterpiece conceived for a premiere in Paris that never happened. It...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2005

Haydn Symphonies Nos 85 and 86

Hugh Wolff and the Minnesota-based Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra won high praise for their recent Copland disc (7/91). Here, in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1991

Schubert/Liszt Piano Works

As I suggested in July when reviewing a recording by Annie Fischer, Schubert and Liszt make complementary rather than strange...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1992

Mendelssohn String Quartets

The Coull Quartet's selection is an interesting one, comprising Mendelssohn's first essay in the string quartet genre (in E flat),...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1992

4 + four

Sometimes I think contemporary quartets, from Kronos down, have lost faith in their tradition and medium. Gimmicks, guests and transcriptions...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2005

Glass Music in Twelve Parts

I’d be interested to know how genuinely “live” this 2006 version of Philip Glass’s Music in Twelve Parts is, and...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2008

Bach Cantatas BWV27, 34 & 41

The confluence of artistic endeavour on this new Sony disc of Bach cantatas recalls triumphs of yesteryear. Gustav Leonhardt, now...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1997

Frank Martin Orchestral Works

This invaluable issue restores not only the pioneering recording of Frank Martin’s masterpiece, the Petite Symphonie concertante for harp, harpsichord,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1996

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