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Wagner Orchestral Works

Conductor, orchestra and recording team have gone to subtle lengths (including the use of two recording venues) to make a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2007

Stravinsky Firebird

Though Ozawa's previous complete recording of the Firebird ballet was made with the Orchestre de Paris on HMV, he had...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1984

Brahms Flute Sonatas; Schumann Romances

I approached these transcriptions with some scepticism, for the late Op 120 Sonatas seem custom-made for the dark, velvety tone...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2005

(The) Orthodox Experience

A fascinating anthology, ranging from recordings of Fyodor Chaliapin made in the 1930s to more recent ones with Nicolai Gedda...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Beethoven: Piano Concertos

With its sometimes diffuse structuring and recurrent strain of fantasy, Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto—Arrau's recent recording of it completes...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1989

Arne Instrumental Works

Thomas Arne is one of several eighteenth-century English composers who deserve wider popularity. Recognizing this, Le Nouveau Quatuor here present...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Oleg Maisenberg - Live at the Vienna Konzerthaus

During the 1994-95 concert season in Vienna Oleg Maisenberg performed a cycle of 12 piano recitals. Each evening was devoted...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

(The) Barbirolli Elgar Album

This splendid two-disc collection brings together most of the Elgar recordings that Barbirolli made with the Halle Orchestra at its...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: /2000

Macmillan Veni, veni, Emmanuel. Tryst

Now coming up to 40, James MacMillan has achieved substantial and sustained success with music whose unambiguously serious social and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1998

Rossini (Il) Turco in Italia

This beautifully shot television film of a live Genoese performance of Il turco in Italia is a memorial tribute to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2010

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