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Chausson; Saint-Saëns; Ysaÿe Violin Works

The 19th century saw some famous collaborations between composer and violinist, and this programme neatly brings together two of them....

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2010

Messiaen Saint-François d'Assise - tableaux Nos 3,6-8

It may be paradoxical, but it’s a good general rule that, the less theatrical an opera, the more a recording...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2001

Haydn Symphonies Nos 45,48 and 102

Three substantial symphonies, sturdily performed and lucidly recorded, for under a fiver almost disarms criticism. At the rate they're going...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1991

Verdi Aida

As is his wont‚ Harnoncourt goes his own way. This is not an Aida to satisfy those used to conventional...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2001

Hampton Court Palace Chapel Choir sings English music

A record produced by an enthusiast is always welcome; and Gordon Reynolds has devised a particularly varied programme which makes...

Reviewed in issue 5/1986

Bach Organ Works

Following his wonderful recording of Bach's most intimate organ pieces (the six Sonatas, BWV525–30 on CDA66390, 11/90), Christopher Herrick has...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1991

Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos 4-6

Of the three last Tchaikovsky symphonies Klemperer was, perhaps surprisingly, most at home in the Fifth and least convincing in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1985

Julian Bream - My Life in Music

With this film, made in 2003 when the guitarist was 70 and had recently retired from the concert platform, Bream...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 1/2007

Busoni Doktor Faust

Sooner or later there must be a new recording of Doktor Faust: it is an opera great enough to need...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1989

Poulenc Vocal and Chamber Works

Michel Piquemal sings in and directs this uneven Poulencian melange, full of spirit and ferocious tempos (Le bal masque clocks...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

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