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Rossini Overtures

This is big-band Rossini, grandly and expertly played and heard in a recording which is rich, deep, and clear. Given...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1983

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Mackerras’s series of opera recordings, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, has a character very much its own, deriving from his...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/2000

Glazunov Orchestral Works

The Seasons was popular as a ballet from its first performance in 1899, though it hardly ever seems to be...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1993

Giordano Andrea Chenier

Whatever else, this is undoubtedly the best-recorded and probably the best-conducted Chenier we've yet had (and I don't forget the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1984

Patterson: Choral and Orchestral Works

Most composers have to wait until at least their second half-century before celebratory concerts begin to mark their passing decades....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1987

Britten/Heming/Rubbra Orchestral Works

A fascinating and rewarding release. As Michael Kennedy’s extremely helpful booklet-essay relates, the history behind the recording of Britten’s Violin...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1997

Bach Keyboard Works

If Weissenberg is fond of Bach, as I'm sure he is in his own way why, I ask myself, is...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1990

Mahler Das klagende Lied

Mahler's ''fairy-tale for the concert hall'', completed in 1880 at the age of 20, first came into the catalogues in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1985

Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle

This recording has—rightly—been much admired since it was first issued in the mid-1960s. When Michael Oliver surveyed the currently-available performances...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1985

Schubert String Quartets Nos 13 & 14

With their Decca Beethoven cycle, the Takács Quartet set a modern-day benchmark. Now, with a new record company and a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/2006

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