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R. Strauss Tome Poems

There is no shortage of good recordings of Also sprach Zarathustra a work that needs CD to do its orchestration...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Bach Instruments and Instrumentation in the Music of J S Bach

Of the 27 instruments used in this ‘mixed­media’ programme‚ six are held by the Musical Instrument Museum of Leipzig University....

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Bel Canto Arias

‘A voice distinguished, among other qualities, by its rarity’. Michael Parouty, in Hugh Graham’s elegant translation, is writing, at the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2004

Paganini Studies

The surprise element in this formidable programme is provided by Ignaz Friedman. And as befits the work of a legendary...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1992

New Year's Eve Concert 1992

I found this a distressing experience. Strauss's pieces can have seldom been played with such virtuosity, even by the same...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Mozart: Piano Works

That Claudio Arrau, 87 this year, still has plenty to tell us about Mozart is not in doubt. What you...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1990

Works by Roosenschoon

The South African composer Hans Roosenschoon, now in his mid-thirties, is showing encouraging signs of reacting constructively to several very...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1986

Solomon plays Schumann and Brahms

For me, Solomon’s 1952 recordings of Schumann’s Carnaval and the Brahms Sonata in F minor are essential for the desert...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1997

Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium Novum

There’s something strangely captivating about hearing Jan Garbarek and the Hilliards chase each other across the centuries to the music...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2010

Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne

Decca followed this CBS recording with Kiri Te Kanawa's selection and, issuing the CD in quick order (410 004-2DH, 7/83),...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

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