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Verdi Aida

Only Act 3 of this performance seems to have been available before – and that on ‘unofficial’ labels. Now The...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2005

Heifetz plays Grieg and Fauré

As issues go nowadays, 41 minutes of music is a far from generous measure, but, as the tailoring maxim has...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1992

Ginastera Piano Music, Vol.1

Few composers have had the good fortune to be married to a performer of world class who has become a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1993

Dufay Quadrivium - Motets, Vol 1

This is not the first CD to offer such a programme in recent years, but whether 70 minutes-worth of undiluted...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2005

Rameau Platée

For an opera considerably off the beaten track, Platée has done rather well on disc. The recording of a famous...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2004

Kalevi Aho Accordian Sonatas

In two substantial movements, Kalevi Aho’s first sonata surely stretches accordion technique to new limits. Tynkkynen is unphased by its...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/1999

Dvorák Stabat Mater

The Czech recording has a German conductor and the German recording has a Czech conductor. I have little hesitation in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1984

Beethoven Symphony No 4. Prokofiev Symphony No 6

Characteristically intense accounts, drawn from Czech radio broadcasts. The Beethoven, lithe and animated, suffers from variable transfer levels and occasional...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1998

Tavener Agraphon; Total Eclipse

John Tavener’s ability to arrest the listener’s ear is nowhere more apparent than in the extraordinary opening pages of Total...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/2001

Brahms Piano Sonata No 3, Op 5; Ballades, Op 10

In what we’re told is his first “purely solo recording” since signing an exclusive contract with Teldec, Barenboim salutes the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1997

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