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Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 8

Because new here, Bolet's Consolations first. These six pieces date from 1849-50, when Liszt has just abandoned the concert platform...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1987

Rutter Requiem

Naxos has done well to invite the choir of Rutter’s own Cambridge college to represent him in its catalogue, which...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003

Baltic Voices, Vol 1

This is the start of a three-year project in which Paul Hillier is to explore the choral repertoire from lands...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2002

Orff Carmina burana

It is good to be reminded how much more sympathetic on record the sound is in the Jesus Christus Kirche...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1984

Zemlinsky Der König Kandaules

An issue of outstanding importance. King Candaules, based on a play by Andre Gide, is Zemlinsky’s last opera, written during...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1997

Falla Vocal & Orchestral Works

Interest here is likely to centre on the hitherto unrecorded, and still unpublished, incidental music Falla wrote in 1927 for...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1993

Rostropovich conducts Shostakovich

Now we can hear how Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony might have begun. Anyone present at Mstislav Rostropovich’s unforgettable Shostakovich Festival at...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2005

Handel: Orchestral Arrangements

Here's an unfashionable record in this age of authenticity and back-to-the-original. Full-blown orchestral arrangements of Handel are hardly the thing,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1988

French Connections-Organ Music from St Edmundsbury Cathedral

These three composers are linked through their place in the venerable tradition of Cesar Franck, as R. G. Vicar’s generous...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1998

Puccini La bohème

Writing in June about the Beecham La boheme on EMI, I called it ''as complete a distillation of Puccini's drama...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1987

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