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Organ Spectacular

This is the sort of experience which makes small boys want to become organists. Not only is it first-class entertainment,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Tchaikovsky arr C Davis Alice In Wonderland

Three grand Tchaikovsky scores are evidently not enough! A telephone call in 1995 from Derek Deane, then the artistic director...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2009

Menuhin in Japan (1951)

Now this really is something – a fully fired-up Menuhin, high on adrenalin and relishing the thrill of the moment....

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Rachmaninov The Bells. Symphonic Dances.

A distinguished choral conductor, Valery Polyansky's orchestral ventures have often struck me as more dutiful than inspired. As a Rozhdestvensky...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2000

Dame Felicity Lott - Song Recital

With the retirement of its great director William Lyne and the recent resignation of his successor Paul Kildea, the Wigmore...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2005

Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys

The baddies always are more fun; in opera and musical theatre they are that much larger than life, too. Small...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2009

Mahler Symphony No 4

Bertini is by far the more persuasive of these new arrivals: his buoyant and open-faced Mahler Fourth exudes bright-eyed innocence...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1991

Verdi Un ballo in maschera

It would be hard, if not impossible today, to assemble such a secure-voiced and accomplished cast as this for Ballo,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990

Monteverdi Motets

Venturesome and wide-ranging in its repertoire as this college choir is, it has not previously been heard on records in...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

In the Streets and Theatres of London

The Musicians of Swanne Alley have been on to a good thing from the start. The Folger Consort and other...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

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