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Prokofiev Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5

In a highly competitive mid-price field – and with Serge Koussevitzky’s classic mono recordings once again in contention – it...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

ELGAR Cello Concerto. Sea Pictures

Issued in 1965 and one of EMI's best-sellers ever since, this Elgar coupling in its new digital transfer makes the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue:

Mozart (Die) Entführung aus dem Serail

The famously baton-less Ferenc Fricsay was always an invigorating Mozart conductor, favouring slimmed-down forces, urgent (yet never hectic) tempi and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2009

Bach Violin Sonatas

The pellucid simplicity of Bruno Canino's piano-playing is the perfect partner for the fine silver of Viktoria Mullova's violin playing....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1993

Leoncavallo I Pagliacci; Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana

Reviewing the Pagliacci in 1961, Philip Hope-Wallace noted that the opera was, as he put it, ''divorced from its terrible...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Zemlinsky Symphony 2; Psalm 23

This is the second recording of Zemlinsky's so-called Second Symphony (in fact his Third, though only two movements of the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

Handel Concerti grossi, Op. 6, nos. 9-12

This release of Handel's Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 9-12 completes the CD issue transferred from the original three LP...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1985

Beethoven Late Piano Works

Earlier recordings by Jean-Francois Heisser have been largely given over to the music of late 19th- and early 20th-century composers:...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2000

Mozart Piano Sonatas, K281, K282, K396 & K576

Writing in 1984, Brendel described his work as a recreator as ‘being like a restorer of paintings who clears away...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2005

Holmboe Works For Violin & Piano

Holmboe’s reputation rests on his masterly series of symphonies, string quartets and concertos. Few realise that he was a practical...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2010

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