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Chopin Préludes; Ballades; Nocturnes

Nikolai Lugansky is the young Russian protégé of the late and greatly missed Tatiana Nikolayeva who‚ confident of his dazzling...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Kirsten Flagstad in Concert

The first performance of Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder would have been a historic event with a much less eminent soloist...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2001

Stravinsky Complete Violin and Piano Works

At the 2005 Aldeburgh Festival Marwood and Adès gave a recital of Stravinsky’s violin and piano works and it was...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2010

Songs of Love and War

Love there is of the unrequited or lost variety on this recording, but though two seekers hope to win it...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1991

Britten & Bridge: Choral Music

Only one of the Britten pieces, and a couple of the Bridge part-songs, have appeared on record before; none are...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1987

Nieve Welcome to the Voice

“A work about unlikely encounters”, reads the subtitle, and beneath the list of singing luminaries on the album sleeve are...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/2007

Ravel Orchestral Works

Maazel’s Ravel is a quilted, wrap-around affair, silky-smooth and shapely but definitely not for those who favour clarity above sensuality...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

Most Double Decca sets can be recommended without hesitation. Unfortunately, this one mixes recordings of decent vintage with a motley...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Bach St Matthew Passion

As Jerrold Northrop Moore puts it in his note, 'This performance of the St Matthew Passion is a 20th-century equivalent...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2000

Verdi Aida

You won't hear a more idiomatically sung performance of this oft-recorded (and successfully so) work in the catalogue. The voices...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989

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