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Turina Orchestral Works

Throughout the LP and CD era we have had collections of Spanish orchestral music featuring one or other of Turina's...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1992

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty Suites

Essentially this is one of EMI's very best CDs. The Philadelphia Orchestra not only play splendidly but have the advantage...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1985

Mozart piano works

There's a considerable difference in the actual sound of these two Mozart transfers. Brendel emerges the more full-bodied, and Schiff...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1987

Caldara La Conversione di Clodoveo

When the Vatican drastically curtailed public opera performances, the opera-mad Roman aristocracy consoled themselves with allegorical and/or moralising oratorios, in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2011

Stokowski Transcriptions

Hot on the heels of Matthias Bamert’s Chandos disc of Mussorgsky as arranged by Stokowski comes this Koch offering duplicating...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1996

Elgar Symphony No 1

At its very reasonable price, especially for a CD, this transfer of Vernon Handley's 1979 recording of Elgar's First Symphony...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Saint-Saëns Samson and Delilah - excs

Stokowski was the operatic conductor who rarely conducted opera. A specially excited interest, therefore, attends the few recordings which catch...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2005

Chopin: Nocturnes & Impromptus

I was surprised to learn that this is no less than Peter Katin's fourth recording of Chopin's Nocturnes (one of...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1989

Bach (3) Partitas, BWV826 - 828

No double-dotting in the Sinfonia of No 2 or the Overture of No 4; and that alone might be a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2005

Beethoven/Mozart Masses

The Missa solemnis, which should be a special event, now comes round with the regularity of a soap-opera's signature tune....

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

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