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Traditional Maronite Chants

This is the second recording to come my way of Sister Marie Keyrouz, that female Maronite cantor (a follow-up to...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 10/1991

Solti conducts Beethoven and Wagner

As early as his 1959 Vienna Philharmonic recording, Solti treated Beethoven’s Eroica as a broad-based epic, the first movement measured...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2008

Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie

’Twas ever thus. Rameau enthusiasts had waited 12 years for a CD version of this opera until, in July last...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1996

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 (1873 Original Version, ed. Nowak)

This original (1873) version of Bruckner's Third Symphony is his longest symphony, a work of epic intent filled with youthful...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2000

Puccini Il Tabarro

With its Grand Guignol melodrama played out lustily, this radio recording of 1949 is a historical curiosity. It originally celebrated...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000

Sauer Piano Concerto No 2; (5) Morceaux

Volume 6 of Oleg Marshev’s survey of Emil von Sauer’s keyboard music includes a first recording of the Second Piano...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2004

Bach Violin Concertos (Cpte Orch Wks Volume 2)

The name of Bach Collegium Japan has become synonymous with excellent recordings of baroque vocal music, most of it by...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/2001

Rubinstein Piano Concerto No 4; Scharwenka Piano Concerto No 1

Described by one respected critic as the greatest living pianist, Marc-André Hamelin soars to ever new heights of virtuosity. In...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2005

Horner Apocalypto - OST

Apocalypto reunites the Braveheart team of composer James Horner and director Mel Gibson in a tale of revenge set among...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2007

Dvorak Violin Concerto

From the Concerto's opening bars I was aware of being in the presence of an extremely confident player, someone sure...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2009

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