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Plakidis Orchestral Works

Peteris Plakidis (b1947) was barely even a name to me before I encountered this beautifully recorded programme, set down in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2007

Villa-Lobos Piano Works

With so much Villa-Lobos piano music unrepresented in the catalogues—will no one please record the second Prole do bebe suite,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1988

Mozart Quintets

The first thing that strikes one about this Mozart disc from America is the sound of the period string instruments...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Mahler Symphony No 9

In 1980, Karajan and the BPO made a memorable LP recording of the Ninth Symphony in excellent analogue sound (DG)....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1984

Mozart Clarinet Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Sinfonia concertante, K297b

There is no shortage of this repertory in the catalogue, and least of all is this true in the bicentenary...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

Mendelssohn Lobgesang

Lobgesang, Mendelssohn's ''Hymn of Praise'', is no longer a rarity on disc, with a dozen versions listed. That makes it...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1994

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.22

This really is a pretty phenomenal achievement. Leslie Howard takes Liszt's ruthlessly thorough transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies in his...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1993

Evgeny Kissin Carnegie Hall Debut

Last December (page 1138) Barrymore Laurence Scherer reported on the ''furore'' created by Kissin's New York debut recital. The concert...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

Mozart Così fan tutte

Of the numerous recordings of Cosi fan tutte in the catalogue, many of them excellent, I don't think there is...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1994

R. Strauss Lieder with Orchestra

Against received opinion I would choose Schwarzkopf’s 1953 account of the Four Last Songs (EMI, 4/88) as my ‘Great Recording’,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1999

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