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Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

The under-playing and under-conducting which JW noted in the present performers' recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's Second Symphony (Philips 9500 971, 3/83)...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1983

Beethoven Piano Concertos

This coupling of Concertos Nos. 2 and 3, which completes Stephen Kovacevich's Beethoven piano concerto cycle with the Australian Chamber...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1992

Verdi Falstaff

These two discs of Shakespearean Verdi offer an interesting contrast in approach. Graham Vick’s Falstaff, which launched the renovated Covent...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Leifs Orchestral and Choral Works

The string quartets, from Yggdrasil (7/95), led us in gently; the Saga Symphony (3/96) pounded the world of Jon Leifs...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1996

Mozart Edition, Vol.10

The Mozart Complete Edition from Philips continues here with a mixture of the familiar and the very unfamiliar from the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

Berlioz Great Orchestral Works

Davis's performances of Berlioz remain among the finest of our time, and in days when there was still a cause...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1994

Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas

Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas span the period from 1797-1812, and the G major work ending the series (which he evidently...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1996

Landi (La) Morte di Orfeo

Stefano Landi gets a place in the history books with his opera Sant’Alessio, staged in Rome around 1631. La morte...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2007

Debussy: Piano Works

I'm sure many people will be as surprised as I was to be given Debussy by Paul Badura-Skoda, someone more...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1991

Fauré Barcarolles; Theme and Variations

No‚ I hadn’t heard of her before‚ either‚ but on opening my copy of Fauré’s Nocturnes I noticed that ‘G...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2002

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