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Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 5 - 8

András Schiff’s sharp attention to detail spills over from the first volume in his projected Beethoven cycle into this recital,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2006

Victor de Sabata conducts

What an astonishing conductor Victor de Sabata was. The Carlos Kleiber of his day: the parallel is not entirely inexact.At...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Dvorák Slavonic Dances

Dvorak's Slavonic Dances owe their existence to Brahms's publisher, who thought that the older composer's Hungarian Dances might usefully have...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1992

Schumann Symphonies Nos 1 and 4

An enjoyable, but ultimately undistinctive cycle from Jordan; Klemperer at both his inspired best and his infuriating worst; and the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1990

Delalande Petits Motets

Petits Motets were generally sung in the Royal Chapel during the Mass between a Grand Motet and the Domine salvum...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1993

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 - 5; Piano sonatas Nos 24 & 31

In the autumn of 1957, Walter Legge staged a Beethoven festival in honour of Otto Klemperer at the Royal Festival...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2004

Respighi Belkis, Queen of Sheba Suite; Dance of the Gnomes; Pines of Rome

Gone are the days when the Minneapolis Orchestra (as it then was) was regularly recorded by the major companies‚ but...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Bach Wohltemperirte Clavier, Books 1 & 2

Here is cause for triple celebration: first of enterprise, secondly of what Tureck, in her trenchant and dazzling notes, calls...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2000

Barber Scenes and Arias

This follow up to Roberta Alexander's Etcetera disc of Barber songs with piano (9/88) will be welcomed by the composer's...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Donizetti Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (hlts)

These are not ‘highlight’ records in the normal sense of the term: they don’t reckon to select the best numbers...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

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