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French works for cello and piano

William Conway and Peter Evans offer first-rate performances of the sonatas of Debussy and Poulenc and the Frank Martin Ballade...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 11/1991

Bridge Piano Quintet; Phantasie Quartet

I’d always thought of Bridge’s Piano Quintet (written in 1904-05 and drastically revised in 1912) as the solitary failure in...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2010

Sancte Deus

‘Know thine audience’ would seem to be Erato’s maxim in issuing yet another sequel to its hugely successful ‘Agnus Dei’...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000

Fauré Choral Works

One would say at once that this is a highly competitive recording of the Faure Requiem (it will be the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Historic Telecasts - Pierre Monteux; Charles Munch

As can be seen above, these two telecast concerts from 1961 and 1963, respectively, were previously issued on separate videos....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2003

Manfred Schenk sings Wagner

Manfred Schenk has been a stalwart of the opera scene in Germany for some 25 years, but his voice has...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991

Taneyev String Trios

This disc of Sergey Taneyev’s three string trios comes at a good time. Given the scarcity of Russian contributions to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2008

Yehudi Menuhin

Historical DVDs have either a primarily documentary interest, or – at their finest – recreate concert performances with such immediacy...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2003

Verdi La Traviata at Covent Garden

This, of course, is the classic performance that cleared the TV schedules and launched Gheorghiu to super-stardom. Now the glamour...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

20th Century Percussion Works

Haydn is believed to have composed at least three concertos for solo horn, but one of them has disappeared, and...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1989

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