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Telemann Fantasias for Solo Violin

The attraction of unaccompanied works such as these to performers in the mould of Maya Homburger, Peter Sheppard and Andrew...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1996

Bruckner Symphonies Nos 5, 6, 8 and 9

With the deaths of Wand, Celibidache and Giulini, the past five years have been good to the scant remaining Bruckner...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 1/2006

Rawsthorne Orchestral Works

Yet another Naxos/British music bull’s-eye, comprising an imaginative programme realized with great sympathy by all involved. The most substantial offering...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999

Ciurlionis Orchestral & Chamber Works

''Ciurlionis had the rare gift of concentrating multiple and very varied ideas into very little pictorial space and very little...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1991

Mahler Symphony No 4

Frederica von Stade has recorded these works before but for different companies so this new pairing will suit her many...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Strasfogel Piano Works

A real and important discovery. The case of Ignace Strasfogel (1909-94) is very similar to that of Berthold Goldschmidt; indeed...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1998

Chopin Ballades, Etudes & Waltzes

These recordings, dating from 1966-75, celebrate the sadly far-distant heyday of American pianism, a time when New York’s Juilliard School...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Fairest Isle

Peter Holman puts the date at circa 1970 when, as a nation, we stopped singing our national songs. Certainly we...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2000

Toscanini conducts Light Classics

In my view Toscanini is both under-regarded and under-represented in the catalogue at present. Whilst I don't want to rake...

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

Janine Micheau sings Chabrier and Debussy

Micheau was of that somewhat unfortunate and perhaps underrated generation of singers whose careers were cut in two by the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

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