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Elgar Symphony No 2. Chopin/Elgar Funeral March

The most thrilling performance of this symphony I have heard in years! In 40 years to be precise, since I...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Americana - Leila Josefowicz

Here’s a major virtuoso not yet in her mid-twenties simply letting her hair down – and what lovely hair, as...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2001

Beethoven Complete Cello Sonatas and Variations

In a rich period of Beethoven cello and piano issues, this latest contender offers highly distinctive performances, played with enormous...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2005

Mahler (Des) Knaben Wunderhorn

Riccardo Chailly’s credentials as a Mahlerian cannot be faulted, not least on disc. Once more, where his own admirable orchestra...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2003

Bach Concerto Transcriptions

An earlier HMV issue (ASD3076, 6/75) has Perlman playing two of these same concertos, the D minor and the Double...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1985

Schumann Lieder

This long recital of Schumann Lieder is a bit of a curate’s egg as regards both songs and interpretation. As...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2005

Teresa Berganza

What television channel today would dare to put out a regular live programme in which singer and accompanist give an...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2003

Honegger Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

Honegger's 'dramatic oratorio' Jeanne d'Arc au bucher used to be better known than it is today, and there are reasons...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1993

Byrd: Sacred Choral Works

Byrd's Latin motets and English anthems (around 200 works in all) form, to quote Rutter's excellently thorough annotation, ''the larger...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1990

Dallapiccola Orchestral Works Vol. 2

It is five years since Chandos issued Volume 1 of their Dallapiccola series but the wait has been well worthwhile....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2010

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