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R. Strauss Salome

This CD reissue of Leinsdorf's 1969 Salome has good sound-quality but it rarely suggests a theatrical performance. The LSO plays...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

As a schoolboy, I often heard or read the received wisdom among musicians that while Bach's 48 were the Old...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1990

Berwald: Symphonies

Franz Berwald is the ideal gramophone composer. His music offers welcome variety on the turntable and forms an attractive ingredient...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1985

Music by Bartók and his Contemporaries

Bartok sets the tone, and the others follow his example – Farkas with a cimbalon-like piano part in “Bihari Roman...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Sir Charles' Precious Music Box I

These two well-filled discs together represent a collection of what Sir Thomas Beecham liked to call lollipops, musical pieces intended...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1990

Beethoven Wind Chamber Works (transcriptions)

In the era long before recording, arrangements for wind band – Harmoniemusik – were popular, and though it is questionable...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2008

Mozart Piano Concertos

The name of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli is legendary, and with good reason, for he is a towering figure among the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Martinu Orchestral Works

One could nit-pick endlessly over the comparative versions listed above (for the record and for what it's worth I marginally...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1991

Mascagni I Rantzau

I Rantzau was Mascagni's third opera, produced in 1892, two years after Cavalleria rusticana. It was widely performed and successful...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995

Prokofiev Violin Sonatas; Five Melodies

Still in his twenties, James Ehnes made quite a splash with his recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices (Telarc, 9/96), and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2000

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