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Bax Orchestral Works

The second Northern Ballad has been rarely heard since its first performance in 1946 (12 years after its composition) and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker - Highlights

Previn's 1972 LSO version—reissued on Classics for Pleasure—emerges very favourably against the new competition. The recording is extremely vivid and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1993

Elgar/Holst Vocal Works

Several young and sceptical listeners have, I know, been converted to this work by Britten's electrifying interpretation. Listening to it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1989

Haydn String Quartets

These are bright, clean performances, and the G major Quartet strides away confidently and buoyantly, while at the same time,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Bach Overtures - Suites; Concerto BWV1044

The four Suites BWV1066-9 can be compressed on to a single Compact Disc, as Janos Rolla has proved (Hungaroton/Conifer (1)...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1989

Taneyev String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2

Sergei Taneyev‚ pupil of Tchaikovsky‚ teacher of Scriabin‚ and friend of Tolstoy‚ was considered an important composer in his lifetime...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Munich National Theatre 1979 Rosenkavalier

If part of the purpose of videos and now CDV—the library function, if you like—is to preserve outstanding performances for...

Reviewed by rmaycock in issue: 7/1989

Early Twentieth Century Orchestral Works

Although not in favour of all-purpose reverberation, I wonder if EMI are taking a risk in presenting these pictorial scores...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 4/1990

Rachmaninov Symphony No 3; Vocalise

Like Toscanini, Boult and Barbirolli, Leopold Stokowski carried some of his finest interpretations well into old age – further in,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Grieg Lyric Pieces, Vol. 3

Grieg's Lyric pieces belong in a tradition of short pianistic essays and tone-poems, of which famous earlier examples include Beethoven's...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

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