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Smetana Má Vlast

Smetacek gets the whole of Ma vlast on to a single CD; Neumann only gets the first four of the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1986

Ravel Daphnis et Chloé

The first thing to strike one about the new DG version of this ever-magical score is its dynamic range, which...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1985

Dvorák The Jacobin

This was the first (and, so far, only) recording of Dvorak's charming village comedy—for the Jacobin of the title is...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Chávez Symphonies Nos 1-6

The three shorter, titled symphonies, Sinfonia de Antigona (1932-3), Sinfonia india (1935) and Sinfonia romantica (1952), haved fared the best...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2000

Pfitzner Lieder, Vol 2

I had a few quibbles about the early and not quite mature songs that CPO included in Vol. 1 of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1999

Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

Exploring the inner life of sound was central to Gérard Grisey’s musical thinking. He initiated the ‘spectral’ approach to composition...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 1/2002

Solti Carnegie Hall Project

Over a 16-day period in June 1994 Sir Georg Solti supervised a series of rehearsals and study-sessions with an orchestra...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1995

Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Multi-faceted musician and now courageous political figure, Daniel Barenboim’s star burns more brightly than ever, and never more so than...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2005

A Varietie of Lute Lessons

A Varietie of Lute Lessons, compiled by Robert Dowland, was the last book of lute tablature to be published (1610)...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/2000

Brahms (The) Late Piano Works

I once interviewed a pianist who explained his tendency towards slow tempi as having to do with the definition in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2008

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