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Tippett A Child of our Time

This is an excellent performance, and at budget price very tempting. All the soloists are good, Palmer and Langridge especially...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1997

Chopin Preludes

Whereas many of Pogorelich's rivals offer extras, he—like Pollini—plays only the 24 Preludes of Op. 28. The recording itself is...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1990

Nielsen: Orchestral Works

Here the two Swedish Nielsen cycles come into direct competition, for Myung-Whun Chung's Gothenburg performance of the Second Symphony on...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1990

R. Strauss Don Quixote. Wagner Overtures.

Selecting from the richest back-catalogue in the world is no easy task, but it is my impression that the high...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Saint-Saëns Symphony 3; Dukas Sorcerer's Apprentice

James Levine and the great Berlin orchestra, in cracking form, offer a performance of Saint-Saens's much recorded Third Symphony which...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1987

C P E Bach Keyboard Concertos

These six harpsichord concertos date from C. P. E. Bach's Hamburg period, the last part of his life; they were...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1984

Goldsmith Islands in the Stream-film score

Two reissues, a first CD release and a new recording illustrate Jerry Goldsmith’s grasp of a wide variety of styles...

Reviewed by dstevens in issue: 13/1997

Fiocco Pièces de clavecin, Op. 1

How many Belgian baroque composers can you name? ''Ah well'', you may say, ''Fiocco was an Italian''. The facts are...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Lalo Roi d'Ys

The booklet-note here (admirably translated, by the way—other French companies, please take notice!) points out that Le roi d'Ys, though...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1990

Tchaikovsky Symphonies

Recorded between 1975 and 1979 in excellent analogue sound, Muti's Tchaikovsky cycle with the Philharmonia is one of the most...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1991

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