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Bach Keyboard Works

Kenneth Gilbert now adds to his impressive list of recordings of Bach's solo harpsichord music the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1991

Beethoven Symphony No.9

Naxos apologises in the booklet for moments of distortion in the finale (something you’re only likely to read – rather...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2001

Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel

There is a Brucknerian glow to the sound in the opening of the Prelude, giving a reminder that the orchestra...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1990

Sullivan Cox and Box

This enterprising recording offers for the first time all the vocal numbers of Sullivan’s debut comic opera. Complete dialogue and...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1998

Braunfels Verkündigung

In the period between the two world wars, Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) was among the most widely performed of all living...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1994

Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

This release of Rosalyn Tureck’s live traversal of Book 1 of Bach’s ‘48’ for BBC Radio 3 – spread across...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/2003

Rachmaninov Preludes, Op 3 No 2, Op 23 and Op 32

Is there a version of all the Rachmaninov Preludes that is completely satisfying? Moura Lympany’s 1951 account comes closer than...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2005

Shostakovich Symphonies 1 & 15

Given the generally mixed success of Charles Dutoit in Russian repertoire, it is no surprise to find here music-making of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Elgar/Tchaikovsky Works for Cello and Orchestra

There's nothing here for Britain's anti-Sinopolites to add to their castigation of this controversial conductor. His and Mischa Maisky's interpretation...

Reviewed in issue 7/1991

W. F. Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Fascinating works that vacillate between old and new styles, with extensive song-like slow movements (particularly in the Concerto in F...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/1998

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