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Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Gluck’s Orfeo has appeared in many guises. But had you been at the court theatre in Vienna at the première...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2002

Bruckner Symphony No. 8

This recording of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony was made in Berlin in June 1989 a few weeks after Karajan's resignation as...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1990

Lutoslawski/Stravinsky Concerted Works

This issue gives record collectors their first opportunity to sample the music Lutoslawski has written since the powerful and provocative...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1989

Beethoven Folksong Arrangements

In 1809, after persistent persuasion from the Scottish publisher George Thomson, Beethoven finally agreed to his commission to write accompaniments...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2009

Taverner & Tudor Music, Vol 1

Taverner’s Western Wynde Mass is often held up as one of the composer’s masterpieces. It is certainly one of his...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2006

Mussorgsky Boris Godunov

Film director Andrei Tarkovsky‚ famous for science­fiction classics Solaris and Stalker and the historical epic Andrei Rublev‚ was a master...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 10/2002

Beethoven Violin Concerto; Romances

Beethoven wrote no cadenzas for the Violin Concerto, but he provided no fewer than four for the piano and orchestra...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

Abel - (The) Drexel Manuscript

The 18th-century violist Carl Friedrich Abel was the son of Bach’s cellist at Cöthen and a close friend of Johann...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 7/2009

Debussy Orchestral Works

How much more lustrous sounding an ensemble is the Suisse Romande Orchestra than of old! Instrumental solos are assured and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1991

Saint-Saëns Orchestral Works

The South Korean violinist Dong-Suk Kang has already shown his paces on record, notably in a fine Naxos performance of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

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