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Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

These recordings appeared in impeccable French LP transfers two years ago and their transfer to the new medium is most...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1987

Harriet Cohen plays Bax

Completed in April 1930, Bax’s Winter Legends, a large-scale sinfonia concertante for piano and orchestra containing some of his most...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2005

Brahms String Quartet No 3; String Quintet No 1

The Shanghai Quartet’s rich, warm, beautifully blended sound is a real asset in Brahms, as is the impressive command, all...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/1998

Beauty and the Beast Original London Cast

Billed as the most expensive musical to hit London’s West End (with costs exceeding £10 million) Disney’s Beauty and the...

Reviewed by mp kennedy in issue: 13/1997

Shostakovich The Gadfly

A ''muted welcome'' was all I could give Serebrier's RCA disc. Now it is time for the full fanfare treatment...

Reviewed in issue 4/1989

Tchaikovsky Ballet & Orchestral Works

It was Dorati who made the pioneering first complete recording of The Nutcracker, also for Mercury, in 1953. This is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992

Offenbach Vert-Vert

It was the enthusiastic reception of its “Entre nous” set of rare Offenbach excerpts (11/07) that persuaded Opera Rara to...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2010

Fandango

As the Carmina Quartet point out in their booklet-notes, this is not the usual kind of quartet disc, but one...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2010

Verdi Choruses

Solti's collection of Verdi choruses is not derived from his various opera sets, but newly and resplendently recorded, with the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1991

Vivaldi Orlando finto pazzo

Opus 111’s Vivaldi series continues to expand at bewildering pace, as indeed it needs to if its aim of recording...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2004

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