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Toscha Seidel - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings

Anyone who invests in Pearl’s excellent Toscha Seidel CD and who reads Lawrence F. Holdridge’s thoughtful annotation will now be...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Saint-Saëns Chamber Works

Saint-Saëns’s chamber music fares better in the concert hall than the recording studio, perhaps because musicians tend to listen less...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2005

Schubert and Schumann Piano Trios

Rubinstein was already in his later eighties (and Fournier only 20 years younger) when these recordings were made in 1972...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1989

Debussy Orchestral Works

If you have been following Gramophone's response to new recordings of Debussy's La mer, Nocturnes and Jeux for the last...

Reviewed by Jonathan Swain in issue: 3/1994

Stars of English Opera, Volume 3

This third and perhaps luckiest dip yet into the bag marked British is for me full of pleasant rebukes and...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Smetana;Tchaikovsky Piano Trios

To have three different versions of Tchaikovsky’s masterly Piano Trio on disc within two months is bounty indeed, the more...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2009

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Bellini said that music drama must make audiences cry, terrify them out of their minds and then kill them. His...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2010

Tavener/Pärt/Górecki Sacred Choral Music

It is good to have on one disc music by these three composers, whose names are so often bracketed together,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Binchois & Dufay Chansons

This recording of songs by Binchois and Dufay by the Gilles Binchois Ensemble might well be considered alongside that of...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 6/1991

Bach St Matthew Passion (abridged)

Furtwangler's St Matthew Passion was recorded from live performances in Vienna in 1954, some seven months before he died. The...

Reviewed in issue 10/1995

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