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Review of Albéniz/Turina Works for Guitar

Albéniz/Turina Works for Guitar

Albeniz on the guitar is neither a new nor an inappropriate concept, ever since Albeniz himself set the seal of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1993

Review of Brahms Symphonies

Brahms Symphonies

Let me deal firstly with questions of sound quality, since those who investigate this set will have to exercise some...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Review of Mahler Symphony No 6

Mahler Symphony No 6

When earlier this year Bernard Haitink completed his stint at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, there was some surprisingly...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2002

Review of Russian Orchestral Works

Russian Orchestral Works

It is astonishing what a contrast there is between Solti's recordings of the same symphony with the same orchestra only...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989

Review of Chopin Scherzi

Chopin Scherzi

Love him or hate him, Pogorelich guarantees a response. Chopin for the faint-hearted this is not; original, provocative, challenging, daring,...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 4/1999

Review of Schumann Lieder

Schumann Lieder

I have no hesitation in saying that this is one of the most satisfying, finely executed discs of Schumann interpretation...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2000

Review of Rameau Zoroastre

Rameau Zoroastre

Here once more, but in a new CD format, is Zoroastre, Rameau's penultimate tragedie-lyrique. Readers who bought the earlier CD...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1990

Review of Richard Tauber in Opera

Richard Tauber in Opera

There has of late been a good deal of acrimonious discussion among seasoned collectors about the relative merits of different...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1992

Review of Philips Consort Music

Philips Consort Music

This was a record we needed. In his note, Peter Holman makes the good point that Peter Philips is perhaps...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Review of Shostakovich Symphony No 7

Shostakovich Symphony No 7

Valery Gergiev’s approach to Shostakovich’s most notorious symphony seems to be to let the drama take care of itself and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2003


 

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