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Prokofiev Violin Concertos Nos. 1, Op. 19 and 2, Op. 63; Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique

A product of the Curtis Institute and still in her early twenties‚ Leila Josefowicz is no stranger to the TV...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2001

Dvorák String Quartets Nos 9 & 12

Dvorak's D minor Quartet starts so beautifully that one wonders why one doesn't hear it more often. It doesn't quite...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Vaughan Williams Symphonies

No Vaughan Williams enthusiast can afford to be without these magnificent historical recordings, for despite dating from December 1952 and...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 7/1991

Stokowski Symphonic Bach, Vol 2

Here, even more than in his first collection (3/94), Matthias Bamert makes one realise that Stokowski’s Bach orchestrations are far...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2005

G. Gabrieli: Choral and Instrumental Works

The spectacular combination of Giovanni Gabrieli, the choir of King's College, Cambridge, a first-rate ensemble of brass players and the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Fauré Orchestral Works

The Faure Violin Concerto, and a ''world premiere recording''! I was ashamed to know nothing whatever of this work, which...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1990

Concertos for Trumpet and Trombone

The subtle inflections Jeffrey Segal brings to the trumpet’s only genuine Classical concertos, the Haydn and Hummel, is just what...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2005

A Handefull of Pleasant Delites-Elizabethan Ballads

The album title is that of a sixteenth-century collection of ballad poems and tunes, but those recorded here are taken...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1997

Korngold (The) Adventures of Robin Hood; (The) Sea Wolf

For Michael Curtiz’s 1941 big-screen adaptation of Jack London’s The Sea Wolf (starring Edward G Robinson as Wolf Larsen, the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2005

Schreker (Das) Spielwerk und die Prinzessin

Tristan and Isolde sharing a delirious ‘Liebestod’ while ascending to a blazing Valhalla? If you occasionally entertain fantasies in which...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2003

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