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Pintscher Sonic Eclipse

With a high profile among younger European composers, Matthias Pintscher is also one of the most recorded and this new...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2011

(The) Great Renata Tebaldi

When I was talking to Renata Tebaldi a few years ago‚ she told me that she found recording a very...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Iva Pacetti (1898-1981)

Among collectors, Pacetti’s name is hardly one to conjure with. Apart from her Nedda in the complete Gigli Pagliacci (HMV,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1996

Crotch Orchestral Works

''The English Mozart'', they called him, when he was an infant prodigy; but William Crotch, born in 1775, didn't turn...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1993

Avison/Scarlatti 12 Concerti grossi

Newcastle-born and -based, Charles Avison issued his string arrangements of harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti in 1744. Forty-two of Scarlatti's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1994

Mahler Symphony No 5

Jonathan Nott leads a meticulously detailed performance of Mahler’s Fifth. Every accent, dynamic marking and hairpin crescendo/diminuendo indication in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2005

MacDowell Piano Concertos

Both these concertos, composed in 1882 and 1885 respectively, are indebted to Grieg (listen to the first movement of MacDowell's...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2008

Mozart Symphonies Nos 34, 39 & 41

Even before he made his first Beethoven recordings with the Philharmonia – versions of the Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1997

Bantock Cello Sonatas

There are some rewarding discoveries to be had here, not least the two sonatas for cello and piano. Both were...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2001

Vivaldi L'estro armonico, Op. 3

The Virtuosi di Roma, under the direction of the late Renato Fasano, was one of two celebrated chamber orchestras that...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1997

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