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Tchaikovsky Piano Works

Elisabeth Leonskaya offers a well-organized, business-person-like view of Tchaikovsky. But especially for the academically inclined Tchaikovsky on display in these...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Pfitzner Das Christ-Elflein

The Christmas-Elf: A Christmas Fairy Story began its public life in 1906 as a play by Ilse von Stach, with...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Rodrigo Piano Works, Vol 1

When I interviewed Rodrigo for The Gramophone a few years before his death in 1999, he told me that one...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2005

Mozart: Middle Period Symphonies

Here is one of the best Mozart issues I have heard for some while, with bright and attractive performances of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989

Vivaldi Gloria & Dixit Dominus

Unless you can peek at the note, there’s nothing on the cover of this recording to indicate that this is...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Olga Borodina Opera Arias

Though Borodina has been a favourite singer in the UK for more than five years and has an impressive list...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Matthews, D From Sea to Sky

The Proms prospectus hailed David Matthews as “the 21st century’s outstanding heir to the great tradition of English symphonism”. The...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2007

Schubert Lieder

The five-LP box-set from which these songs have been taken came in the wake of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's epic survey of...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Shostakovich String Quartet No 1; Piano Trio No 2; Piano Quintet

The St Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Quartet have drawn sustained and widespread praise for their fresh approach to Shostakovich’s quartets, their...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2004

Songs with Guitar

The common factor that links four of the composers in this programme is that they all lived and worked for...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1992

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