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Pärt Symphony 3 & Tabula Rasa

The most interesting comparison here is between Takuo Yuasa and Neeme Jarvi in Part’s granitic Third Symphony. The piece was...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2001

Bruckner Symphony No 8

Few readings in recent years have been more assiduously toured or generally acclaimed than Wand’s Bruckner Eighth yet Wand himself...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2002

Elgar/Walton Violin Concertos

After Dong-Suk Kang, eminently satisfying on Naxos, to say nothing of the classic, long-breathed Kennedy (EMI) or before him, Heifetz...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1992

Strauss (The) Complete Songs, Vol 1

Following in the wake of Hyperion’s marvellous surveys of Schubert and Schumann Lieder, here comes the even more welcome first...

Reviewed by John Allison in issue: 6/2005

Puccini Discoveries

Few composers concentrated so completely on writing operas as Puccini did, and all but one of the items on this...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2004

Piero Coppola conducts

Piero Coppola gained early conducting experience in his native Italy, but after the First World War settled in Paris and...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

On the face of it the catalogue is not exactly crying out for this issue. But it turns out to...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Bach Cantatas Nos 56, 82 and 158

If Bach had heard Thomas Quasthoff he might have considered making his Evangelist a baritone. Such is the telling presence...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2005

Rachmaninov Piano Works

Rachmaninov once complained to his friend Alfred Swan about how much superfluous music there was in his early works, with...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1994

Mahler Symphony No 5

I wish I could be more welcoming. Morris, after all, gave us sterling service in the days when Mahler recordings...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1989

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