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Stanford Symphony No 5; Irish Rhapsody No 4

Milton inconsiderately failed to follow up L'allegro and Il penseroso with another couple of poems called Il collerico and Il...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1988

Rachmaninov; Rimsky-Korsakov; Stravinsky Piano Works

An 18-year-old Chinese pianist, Wen-Yu Shen, strides into the limelight with a début disc of dazzling assurance and poetic conviction....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2004

Grandi Vespro della Beata Vergine

It is natural that musicians seeking a viable close alternative to Monteverdi’s published Vespers of 1610 should consider appropriate selections...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2011

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4

Iván Fischer nails his very individual colours to the mast from the opening fanfares (horns and bassoons), with tiny rhetorical...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2005

Opera Gala

This is an opera gala with a difference. Instead of cherry-picking the usual highlights, it gives us arias and duets...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

La Guitarra Romantica

Though Bream's successful explorations and expansions of the repertory have been more wide-ranging than those of any other guitarist of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1992

Kancheli Trauerfarbenes Land

... a la Duduki (a ‘duduki’ is a Georgian folk-reed instrument) opens to a striking neo-baroque toccata, outspoken music, bright...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Furtwängler conducts Bach & Beethoven

Furtwangler’s August 1950 Salzburg Festival recreation of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto is a thing of extraordinary beauty, even though it...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2001

Davis, C Cyrano

Own labels are the order of the day in the CD world and Carl Davis’s is one of the more...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/2010

Monteverdi Madrigals, Book 6

Monteverdi's Sixth Book of Madrigals is dominated by the sadness of separation, whether final and irrevocable as when caused by...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1993

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