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Rachmaninov Music for Piano and Orchestra

Here are the 'coals-to-Newcastle' pieces Ashkenazy took with him for his much-publicized return to Moscow. A souvenir of a memorable...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Puccini (La) Fanciulla del West

Fired up by its sensational Tosca, available on DVD from Decca, the Netherlands Opera clearly wanted a repeat of its...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2010

Wood Symphony; Scenes from Comus

Tough‚ intransigent and sincere‚ Hugh Wood has never been a fashionable composer. Things might have been different had Jacqueline du...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

These full-blooded Herculean performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons are not quite my 'scene', as they say. Goodness knows how many...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1983

Poulenc Liberté

Benedetto Marcello's Estro poetico-armonico was published in Venice in the mid-1720s and contains cantata-like settings of the first 50 Psalms...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/2000

Marcel Journet - Complete Solo Recordings 1909-33

This is announced as the first instalment in a “projected four-volume series chronicling the entire recorded output of this most...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Schumann Myrten; 12 Gedichte

The Banse/Bar partnership is rewarding, nowhere more so than when the singers come together for the three charmingly easeful duets...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1998

Sir Georg Solti - A Celebration

In double quick time Decca has here, in aid of the Solti Foundation, produced the disc of the Gala concert...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1999

English Song Series, Vol. 4 - Lehmann

Volume 4 of Collins’s English Song series is the least predictable so far. One by one and little by little...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Consonanze Stravaganti - Venetian & Neapolitan Music for Consort of Viols

L’Amoroso explores early Italian viol consort repertory, artfully filled out with keyboard transcriptions. The ensemble is polished and assured: six...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

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