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Dvorak Symphony No 9; Mozart Violin Concerto No 5

The six-film collaboration between Karajan and French director Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1965-67 changed the way orchestral music was filmed for...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2011

Zino Francescatti

Even though Zino Francescatti was still per-forming as recently as the mid-1970s, this 1945 Symphonie espagnole, his first concerto recording,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/1997

Lorin Maazel conducts Wagner

Maazel always sounds warmer, more relaxed this side of the Atlantic, and here he draws some splendid playing from the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1998

Mahler Symphony No 9

According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “God is in the detail”. If any conductor could prove that true in Mahler,...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

Pablo Casals plays Cello Concertos

It scarcely seems necessary to write anything further about Casals's famous recordings of the Dvorak and Elgar concertos, which have...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1990

Leclair Violin Concertos, Volume 2

As with Vol. 1 of these Leclair concerto recordings favourably greeted by LK last August, only one work here also...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1995

Barber/Dello Joio Orchestral Works

Norman Dello Joio has had a productive obsession with Joan of Arc. This symphony started life as an opera, produced...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1994

Beethoven/Schumann Piano Concertos

I reported in the April issue (page 24) on the premiere in Lahti of The Wood-Nymph (or “Skogsraet) and now...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1996

Brahms Piano Trios

Those of us lucky enough to have been at Hungary’s 1990 Interforum at Esterhaza will remember Norway’s not-long-founded Grieg Trio...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996

Sibelius Orchestral Works

This Brings the number of CD versions of the First Symphony Currently available to five, all of them having distinct...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1987

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