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Tchaikovsky Songs, Volume 2

Nina Rautio and Ilya Levinsky join Sergei Leiferkus (who featured in Vol. 1, 8/96) in Conifer’s survey of all Tchaikovsky’s...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1997

Haydn Symphonies 101 & 103

Frans Brdggen and his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century follow their largely successful Philips recording of Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 90...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1989

Leoncavallo & Mascagni Operas

The supposedly minor works of the misleadingly so-called verismo school have a pretty hard time of it. For the performance...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1990

Saving Private Ryan Original Soundtrack

Steven Spielberg has already viewed the Second World War through the prism of personal biography (Schindler’s List), paranoid farce (1941)...

Reviewed by kmulhall in issue: 12/1998

Mendelssohn Overtures

Most of the Academy hallmarks are here – bright toned vigour, enlivening animation – with Marriner’s ‘going for it’ only...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1998

Lauro Venezuelan Waltzes

It seems to be the way of the world that, after a decent period of mourning following their deaths, composers...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991

Bartók Divertimento. Britten Frank Bridge Variations

Music-making of crisp discipline and unswerving dedication, very well recorded (the sessions in fact date from 1985). The Bartok is...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998

Arnold; Lambert Piano Works

Mark Bebbington’s 85th-birthday tribute to the late Sir Malcolm Arnold starts with his first substantial piano composition, the Piano Sonata...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2007

Bellini I Capuleti ed i Montecchi

This delicate, elegiac opera is still too little known. In spite of its broken-backed libretto, based very loosely on Shakespeare,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1992

Aaron Copland Piano Music

A useful disc. Born in New York, Eugenie Russo has studied under (amongst others) Elisabeth Leonskaja in Salzburg and Hans...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1996

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