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Prokofiev Violin Sonatas

These are good, confident performances that compete on their own terms and avoid filching ideas from illustrious recorded forebears. Thirty-year-old...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Dvorák Orchestral Works.

Dvorák’s 10 Legends are crammed full of the most entrancing inspiration; Iván Fischer and his personable Budapest band are intensely...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2004

Messiaen Chamber Works

Only in 2007 was Messiaen’s early Fantaisie for violin and piano at long last published. The composer’s suppression of this...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2008

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia

This is a classic set of Il barbiere di Siviglia and it is a great delight and solace that it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1987

Mendelssohn String Symphonies

Mendelssohn's youthful string symphonies have almost become repertory items with the growth of so many small groups, some working with...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Wagner Das Rheingold

Das Rheingold is possibly the most telling music drama, as distinct from opera, ever composed. Wagner's ability to provide the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1989

Rautavaara Sacred Works for Mixed Chorus

In those innocent days, long before Angels and marketing had ever been thought of, Einojuhani Rautavaara was quietly and industriously...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1999

Korngold Symphonic Serenade; Griffes Roman Sketches

Charles Tomlinson Griffes's life was cut brutally short in 1920 at the age of only 35. As a kind of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/2007

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4. Nutcracker (excs)

Here is another very happy marriage resulting from EMI's Beecham collaboration with CBS. The Nutcracker Suite was recorded by Philips...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

La Bonne Chanson

Although she has recorded Gluck’s Orphee (EMI, 2/90), Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust (Philips, 3/90 and DG – to be released)...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/1998

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