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Shostakovich The Execution of Stepan Razin; Two Fabelsafter Krylov

Since the classic Kyrill Kondrashin account (Melodiya, 1/69) continues its purgatorial wait for reincarnation, the field is still wide open...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/1999

Haydn Die Jahreszeiten

Die Jahreszeiten, admitted Haydn, was no second Schopfung. If Die Schopfung was a hard act for even the composer to...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1988

Monteverdi Solos and Duets

Regular readers will recall that for some time I have been quietly praying for another record of Emma Kirkby singing...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 4/1988

Bach Goldberg Variations; Sweelinck Fantasia

I seem to have heard so many different versions of the Goldberg Variations just lately that I am in danger...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1990

Maxwell Davies Vocal Works

Black Pentecost (1979) has a clear point to make. The old Orkney ways—and perhaps the islands themselves—are under threat from...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993

Marenzio Il Nono Libro de Madrigali, 1599

Marenzio's Nono Libro di Madrigali is without doubt one of the great undiscovered treasures of the Italian madrigal repertory. The...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 1/2000

Tower Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman

Here is another fine disc from the conductor, orchestra and production team responsible for RCA's terrific collection of music by...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2000

Bruckner Symphony No 2

First a word about editions. Marcus Bosch uses the same edition chosen by Georg Tintner and Simone Young, namely the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2011

Mozart Symphonies Nos. 29, 31 & 33

Frans Bruggen and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century use period instruments, of course, but no one need think that...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1996

Chopin Scherzi & Impromptus

For his third DG disc, 22-year-old prize-winning Yundi Li returns to Chopin, performing music which won him standing ovations in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2004

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