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Shostakovich Symphony 14; Marina Tsvetaeva Poems

Not for the first time is reappearance on CD a mixed blessing. With the singers that much closer to you...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1987

Stanford Concerto for Cello

Extraordinary to think that such an appealing work as Stanford’s 1880 Cello Concerto should have been allowed to languish neglected...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2011

Ashkenazy Duets

What an enticing programme, with Ashkenazy Sr joined by his son Vovka for an all-French repast. One of the most...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2010

Krommer Contemporaries of Mozart, Volume II

Franz Krommer is Frantisek Kramar, one of the most gifted of the Bohemians who made a career in Vienna in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1994

Music for Violin and Cello

The Honegger, Martinu and Rivier pieces are not currently listed in the Gramophone Classical Catalogue, but these fine performances do...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol 1

In embarking on a Mozart concerto cycle, Jeremy Menuhin is pitting himself against the likes of Brendel, Uchida (both Philips),...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2006

Mahler Symphony No. 7

Rafael Kubelík’s 1970 Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony‚ made with this same orchestra in this same hall‚ was...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Villa-Lobos Piano Works, Vol 2

The first and outstand­ing volume of Sonia Rubinsky’s cycle of Villa­Lobos’s piano music was issued in 1999 (7/99). But the...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer

This is undoubtedly the most successful modern recording of this work. For once virtually no excuses or reservations have to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1986

To Music Baillie & Ferrier 1941-6

It was on the tip of the tongue to refer to Dame Isobel and Dame Kathleen, but of course Ferrier...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

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