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Litolff Concertos Symphoniques 2 & 4
Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series is surely one of the most absorbing and enterprising of current recording projects. Now up...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 4/1997
Mozart Symphonies Vol.4
Having auditioned Vol 7 in Adam Fischer’s Mozart cycle (12/09), we know what to expect from him: characterful readings, sharp...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 1/2010
Classical Oboe Quartets
Paul Goodwin here plays a modern copy of a 1785 oboe by Carl Augustin Grenser, one of the greatest wind...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1998
Coates Songs & Chamber Works
The words ‘Volume 2’ do not appear; but this is very much a sequel to the existing ASV collection of...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1996
Brahms Piano Trios
The Odeon Trio go for gold. Unlike either the Beaux Arts (Philips) or the Fontenay (Teldec), they use three CDs...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1993
Bennett, R R Songs before Sleep
What a treat this is! Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, 74 years young, continues to delight audiences the world over with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2010
Brahms Piano Variations
Personally, I come to all Brahms’s piano variations, except the two Paganini sets, with a heavy heart and an overwhelming...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2007
Great Swedish Singers - Elisabeth Söderström
As WS Gilbert might have said, Elisabeth Söderström was the very model of a modern prima donna. Her repertoire embraced...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2004
Morales Missa Mille regretz
Until very recently Morales was one of the most unjustly neglected of sixteenth-century composers on disc, but this situation has...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 1/1996
Korngold in Vienna
Of many Korngold CDs (according to information received from the Korngold Society in Hamburg, there are now over 40), this...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/2000
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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