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Emil Gilels - The Giant

‘Emil Gilels – The Giant’, RCA’s title for this two-disc tribute, rings true. Few pianists have been more masterly or...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2000

Oboe Concertos

What a welcome change it is these days to find Mozart coupled with someone else! This is an attractive little...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/1991

Boccherini: String Quintets

This very welcome disc offers a well varied selection of Boccherini's string quintets, covering 25 years and a wide range...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1988

Schubert Sonata in A Minor; Sonata in D Major; Impromptu in E Flat

Sviatoslav Richter’s Schubert has always provoked controversy and APR’s reissue of recordings dating from 1956 57 is a savage reminder...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2009

Franck Orchestral Works

Muti relishes laying the curse on the huntsman with an (unmarked) mighty broadening for its final damning chords (from 11'04''),...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1993

Nicolai Orchestral Works

Berlioz greatly admired Nicolai—he encountered him and his work in Vienna—above all as a brilliant conductor, and one facing a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1990

Bach Sonatas and Partitas

It is remarkable that the first-ever complete recording of Bach's works for solo violin should have been entrusted by HMV...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Albinoni; Pisendel; Vivaldi Violin Sonatas

It is with some surprise that I find very little of Johann Georg Pisendel’s music in the current catalogue. This...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2003

Verdi Falstaff

Vintage 1956, Italian television, black and white, ‘the flicks’ appropriately named, with an occasional vertical line down the middle, and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2006

Lang, B I Hate Mozart

I Hate Mozart is astute, witty and pacy music-theatre about a fictional staging of The Magic Flute. The plot is...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 1/2009

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