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Copland: Orchestral Works

When playing this Compact Disc be careful to set the volume level considerably below your normal one before you start....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1983

Finzi Dies Natalis & Intimations of Immortality.

I am not very confident of understanding what T. S. Eliot meant when he said he had “shored” various fragments...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Britten (Les) Illuminations; Serenade

With just a dozen players, the Scottish Ensemble makes a tight-knit group. Everywhere on this disc there is playing of...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 5/2005

Beethoven - Complete Works for Cello & Piano

The traditional, legendary view of Beethoven presents him as a fiery, temperamental iconoclast, but it's surely a characteristic of great...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2000

Taktakishvili Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1; Balakirev Tamara

These are fresh, vibrant readings presented in a fluent, eagerly communicative style. It is as if this gifted young player...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Szigeti & Bartók Washington Recital

Six months before settling for good in the USA, Bartok gave a recital in the Library of Congress with his...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1991

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Not to be confused with Stephen Kovacevich, nor likely to be, Mikhail Kazakevich offers a Schubert of beguiling surface beauty...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Measha Brueggergosman - Night and Dreams

In a programme that moves, as in dreams, from land to land without seeming to notice, this delicately attuned soprano...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2010

Callas - First Official Recordings 1949-53

Those of us who first purchased the original 78rpm records of the Bellini items around 1950 will never forget the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000

Herbert von Karajan - Maestro for the Screen

Robert Dornhelm’s officially sanctioned documentary takes Rossini as an unlikely but apt key signature: from the opening of the William...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2008

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