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Sibelius Complete Symphonies

If sonic splendour were the sole criterion, Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Sibelius symphony cycle with the Philharmonia would win every prize going....

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2003

Pipelare Missa L'homme armé, etc

Paul Van Nevel has done a great deal for composers whom he judges to have been unjustly neglected. Matthaeus Pipelare...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1996

Willson Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

The orchestral works of Meredith Willson (1902-84) are another discovery in American music, although it may seem difficult to accept...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2000

Callas - A Documentary

The film begins with a newsreel of Callas’s funeral in Paris, and it is not immediately apparent that it is...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2001

Toscanini conducts the Philadelphia Orch

In mid-1941 Toscanini temporarily fell out with the NBC Symphony Orchestra management, and during the following season directed the Philadelphia...

Reviewed in issue 6/1991

Rachmaninov Songs

Chandos have been faithful champions of Rachmaninov’s songs above all with their three-volume complete collection using four singers, Joan Rodgers,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1997

Dvorák; Franck; Grieg Works for Violin and Piano

A breath of fresh air seems to blow through these recordings, made on the west coast of Scotland. The...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2004

Serenata

The first of these 17 mainly quietly melodic songs, Tosti's La serenata, no doubt inspired the album's title and it...

Reviewed in issue 3/1985

Operatunity – The Winners

How is one fairly to judge such an offering as this? These two undoubtedly talented sopranos, winners of Channel 4’s...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2004

Beethoven Choral Symphony

Jochum at his inspirational best deserves better sound and better playing than he is provided with in this 1979 EMI...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1988

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