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Russian Arias, Vol. 2

Over this recital, successor to Chandos’s record of arias in the Russian tenor heritage (5/98), shines the steady light of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1998

Skampa Quartet - Live from Wigmore Hall

New series of CDs drawn from BBC Radio broadcasts are coming thick and fast. Following the BBC Legends series and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1999

Tavener (The) Veil of the Temple

Ravi Shankar always teases European audiences about our short attention span, condescending to limit improvisations to under an hour rather...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 3/2005

Geminiani Concerti Grossi, Op 3

Francesco Geminiani’s Op. 3 Concerti grossi have been recorded on period instruments before, on one of the better of the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/1998

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 2

Although I am not a wholehearted admirer of all of Bolet's performances, I have to admit that this anthology represents...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 7/1986

Huber H Symphonies Nos 1 and 7

So many composers fade from view after their deaths whatever standing they enjoyed during their lifetimes. Such has been the...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Fauré Requiem

Here is a large-scale but rather distantly captured recording of this work; it is almost as if one had stumbled...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

There is quite a good representation of Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas on record these days. A 1990 Moscow version of Christmas Eve...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1998

Roussel: Complete Solo Songs

Two or three of Roussel's songs turn up occasionally in recitals, but as a whole his output in this sphere...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990

Mendelssohn Psalmen, Motetten, Hora Est

In these seven unaccompanied choral works Mendelssohn expresses his Christian faith unequivocally. Full of musical beauty and spiritual intensity they...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1999

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