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Telemann Six Violin Sonatas

The catalogue is not short of recordings of the original piano version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures – some 50 at current...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998

Shostakovich Symphony No 7

The past few years have been fairly quiet so far as new recordings of the Leningrad are concerned. Now we...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2003

Messiaen Harawi

Messiaen has described Harawi as the first panel of his 'Tristan-triptych', the others being Turangalila and the Cinq rechants. One...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1985

Brusa Orchestral Works

The promise of the first CD in the Naxos series of the music of the Milanese composer Elisabetta Brusa (10/02)...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2003

Mozart: Tenor Concert Arias

Records of Mozart arias seem all the fashion just now. I am not certain that they make wholly satisfactory recitals,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1985

Rossini Cantatas, Vol. 1

An interest, less than eager, more than merely polite, is what one might reasonably be expected to show in Rossini’s...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1998

Verdi Otello

As it happened I listened to this Otello a couple of days after hearing the Kleiber/Domingo performance at Covent Garden....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1987

Handel & Telemann Cantatas

Archiv Produktion and Teldec have done it again. Having twice previously achieved simultaneous releases of Telemann's instrumental anthology Musique de...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991

Messiaen Organ Works, Vol 6

This is Messiaen’s largest organ cycle, a triumphant summary of his totally personal compositional techniques and an imposing celebration of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 5/1999

Maxwell Davies Orchestral Works

As Davies himself has made clear, the Sinfonia is one of his homages to Monteverdi, while the sleeve-note to this...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1987

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