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Nodyrev Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

In 1943 a 19-year-old violinist in Leningrad’s Musical Comedy Theatre was arrested, accused of counter-revolutionary activity and sentenced to death...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas

These are two well-filled medium-price discs from an undoubted master-pianist playing very much on home ground. How can it be...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Wagner Lohengrin

This is the first of three VHS versions of the opera to be reincarnated on DVD. That is surprising in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2003

Dvorák Piano Concerto, etc

The catalogue is short of an outstanding recent version of Dvorak’s Piano Concerto, not an easy work either to bring...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1997

Nielsen Commotio; 7 Early Songs; Violin Sonata

Orchestral transcriptions of large­scale organ works can be a mixed blessing. But Bo Holten’s of Nielsen’s late masterpiece Commotio is...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

D'Indy Orchestral Works Vol. 2

On record, at least, Vincent d’Indy’s star is well and truly in the ascendant. Thierry Fischer’s recent BBC NOW recording...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2009

Jacqueline du Pré - A Celebration

Who was Jacqueline du Pré? (2001) is Christopher Nupen’s third documentary film about the great English cellist who died of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2007

Prokofiev Piano Works

What a curious disc: not an entirely surprising one, perhaps, for those familiar with Olli Mustonen’s mannerisms – his allergy...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2005

Frederica von Stade sings Monteverdi and Cavalli

Von Stade, an experienced artist in baroque opera, hardly sings an unstylistic note in this attractive programme of Monteverdi and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1985

Schubert Die Schöne Mullerin

As one might have expected, this is a worthy successor to the same pair's Gramophone Award-winning Schwanengesang (Decca (CD) 425...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1991

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