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Suk/Tchaikovsky Serenades

The Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra will afford a listener intense pleasure in the quality of their string playing. Whether it...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

(A) Tribute to Benny Goodman

Starting with a dazzling account of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s Second Concerto, the one written for Benny Goodman, this is not...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

Of few operas have there been so many fine historic recordings as of Pelleas et Melisande: reissues have included Desormiere’s...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1996

Gregorian chant from Canterbury Cathedral

No doubt on the morning of December 30th, 1170, as the news of murder in the Cathedral circulated through the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Rachmaninov/Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

This coupling is as familiar as salt and pepper, yet there is always room for new and revelatory accounts. Jean-Bernard...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1993

Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 2

Hyperion and the Hanover Band immediately gain over the rival period-instrument version of Nos. 90 and 91 by including the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1991

Mendelssohn Elijah

I imagine that, for most Gramophone readers, Elijah should be sung in English, as at the first performance in Birmingham...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 9/2011

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: Suites Nos 1-3

There is a good case to be made for programming the 20 numbers from all three of Prokofiev’s Romeo and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2007

Bach, CPE; Graf; Haydn Concerti brillanti

To offer three world premiere recordings among these four 18th_century concertos is enterprising enough, so we can forgive Jan Vogler...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2008

Walton & Vaughan Williams: Concertos

This collection is a straight transfer from an EMI Treasury LP issued four years ago (11/87), and gives as much...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

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