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Serenata

We learn something every day: as here, that Leoncavallo set a poem of Andre Chenier’s (La chanson des yeux) and...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Brahms Symphony No 3; St Antoni Variations

Brand-new budget-price recordings which can rub shoulders with the best are rarer than one imagines (Colin Davis's 1962 HMV Concert...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2007

Glass Kundun

Considered in isolation from Martin Scorsese’s new film on the life of the Dalai Lama, Philip Glass’s score takes on...

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

Bach Inventions, Sinfonias, French Suite No 5

While Bach may have conceived his Inventions and Sinfonias as teaching pieces, Till Fellner’s intelligent and characterful pianism consistently embraces...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2009

Druckman Chamber Works

Best known for his iridescent orchestral scores, Druckman achieves in his quartets a fine balance between formal complexity and expressive...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/1998

Though Lovers be Lost

Hard to believe, I know, but this is the third recording of Sir Eugene Goossens’ Oboe Concerto of 1927 to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2004

Norah Amsellem - Debut

Norah Amsellem is fortunate in having Dalton Baldwin as her accompanist here. The late Gérard Souzay, Baldwin’s longtime collaborator, penned...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2005

Jamaican Rumba - Music by Arthur Benjamin, Volume 1

Arthur Benjamin's Jamaican Rumba was the result of a visit there in 1938 and it soon became a world hit....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000

Janet Baker - Song Recital

This CD is a timely reminder, a generous one too, of Baker in her prime. At the peak of her...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

A fine performance and hardly less impressive recording, which holds up surprisingly well on all counts against the competition it...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1985

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