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Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Every home should probably have one. After all, Horowitz, that “ultimate wizard of the keyboard” (to borrow BM’s phrase), was...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1998

Brahms Symphony No 1

Janowski's mid; 1980s Brahms cycle is now reissued by ASV on four super-bargain discs. The RLPO of nearly a decade...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Reynolds Coconino; Visions; Kokoro; Ariadne's Thread; Focus a Beam; emptied...

These two discs group together works composed for the members of the Arditti Quartet – individually and together – between...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000

Purcell Trumpet and Choral Works

In Purcell lore, Ode for St Cecilia’s Day – listed without a date – more often than not suggests the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1996

Verdi Il Corsaro

A pleasant nostalgia accompanies re-acquaintance with this recording, despite the fact that it was issued only 11 years ago. For...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Adès Piano Recital

Given free rein to construct a recital programme a composer/pianist will almost always present an audience with a very different...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: /2000

Glazunov King of the Jews Op. 95

Glazunov’s incidental music to the Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov’s mystery play holds much the same spiritual place in his works...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Charpentier conducts Charpentier

Poulenc regarded Gustave Charpentier’s opera Louise as a success, as opposed to the ‘lamentable failure’ of Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe-Bleue....

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 5/2003

Brahms Serenade No 1. Elgar In the South

If this is an unexpected coupling from an unexpected source, Riccardo Muti's strong and expressive performances provide reason enough for...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1995

Rota Piano Works

Nino Rota is known to most non-Italian listeners as the composer of music for films by Visconti, Zeffirelli and above...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/1994

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