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Glass "Low" Symphony

In which Philip Glass meets the vernacular and finds salvation. Or almost. But first, a few necessary points of clarification....

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 5/1993

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1; Cello Sonata

The 50th anniversary of Prokofiev’s death in 2003 generated any number of rarities on disc. It was, however, the familiar...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2006

Prokofiev Cinderella Excerpts

This extended selection from Prokofiev's Cinderella is well documented by Richard Freed who, besides providing an excellent background note on...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986

Rossini Armida

Callas admirers and Rossini collectors of a certain vintage will know all about this recording; where newcomers are concerned‚ it...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Gluck Alceste

Orfeo apart, Gluck's operas have been poorly treated by the gramophone. The later, Paris version of Alceste has received only...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1983

Schumann Chamber Works

After “one memorable day of rehearsal”, as the introductory note puts it, Martha Argerich and a group of friends recorded...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1996

Ullmann Orchestral Works

This is the first in yet another series devoted to ''the forgotten, lost and prohibited music of European composers in...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Bach; Beethoven; Webern Piano Works

In an age where great, good, bad and indifferent recordings rub shoulders in a chaotic market place, Piotr Anderszewski’s playing...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2004

Beethoven Piano Works played on the Fortepiano

The F minor Sonata of Op. 2 goes quite well on this Schantz piano of 1797, but I am not...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/1985

Handel Orlando

It is good to have William Christie’s refined understanding of baroque music applied to a Handel opera. He has of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1996

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