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Dudana Mazmanishvili - Piano Recital

Oehms Classics’ Debut series spotlights artists who have “proven their ability at major competitions and repeatedly demonstrate their exceptional artistic...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2007

Vaughan Williams/Ireland Orchestral Works

Sounding both cleaner and warmer than on either of its two previous CD reincarnations Barbirolli's memorably affectionate 1965 account of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994

Bach Guitar transcriptions

Nicholas Hooper is not yet well known, even within the world of the guitar, but this recording suggests that he...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1989

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

Dutoit adds to his anthology of Stravinsky recordings with this exceptionally generous and well-planned coupling, one which firmly keeps Apollon...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1994

Cui Preludes, Op.64

Cesar Cui was a notoriously sharp critic, less acute as a self-critic. Many of these Preludes are charming, but it...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1994

Brahms: Piano Works

When European-born conductors of similar origin to George Szell take charge of an American orchestra, as Szell did in Cleveland...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Verdi La battaglia di Legnano

Written for a premiere in Rome at a time when the city was seething with nationalist and republican passions, an...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Handel: Messiah

In considering these five recordings of Handel's Messiah, only one of which—the least enticing—is new to the Gramophone Compact Disc...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990

Mendelssohn String Quartets

The Raphael Quartet are clearly keen to make out a case for Mendelssohn's string quartets, which are indeed still too...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1989

Clara Schumann & Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trios

''Women always betray themselves in their compositions, and this is true of myself as well as others'', so Clara Schumann...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1990

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