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Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 4, etc

This recording complements Cherkassky’s 1994 studio performance of Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto (made when he was 85) with a selection...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1996

Schumann & Liszt Piano Works

Here are two performances that I think are of unequal quality. Rubinstein obviously felt at home when recording with Wallenstein,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1988

Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2; Vocalise

Ludwig Minkus may have been no Delibes or Tchaikovsky, but he does not deserve the disparaging comments that have often...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1995

Patterson Concertos

Paul Patterson, longtime professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, is here celebrated in recordings of three major...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2011

Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Despite a certain in-built incongruity, harpsichords (even modern instruments, by the sound of them) partnered in Bach by an orchestra...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1998

Wagner Choral & Orchestral Works

The focus here is on the ceremonial music of Wagner’s years in Dresden, that highly unstable time in the 1840s...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1997

Great Singers of our Century - Irmgard Seefried

The occasion captured on this live 1969 recording from the Mozarteum in Salzburg was planned specifically for young people who...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2000

Weber Clarinet Works

Rarely do orchestral collections such as this avoid mixing the well-known with the over-familiar, full marks, then, to BIS for...

Reviewed in issue 1/1993

Spanish Music

I suppose all this may pass muster on the soundtrack of the new film from which it is taken, where...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1987

Sullivan Music for Shakespeare's Plays

Marco Polo’s first two Sullivan discs offered ballet, concert and incidental music from the composer’s early days (6/93). Here we...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1996

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