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Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet Suites

This is not the first version of the two orchestral suites drawn from the Romeo and Juliet ballet where balletic...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Bruckner Symphony No 6

The CD cover shot has Sir Roger Norrington looking at the camera, hands spread wide as if to say “That’s...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2008

Schubert String Quartets, Vol. 8

These are spacious, fine-toned performances of two of the four quartets Schubert wrote in his 17th year. The Leipzig Quartet...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Prisms of Renewal

This superlative disc is a splendid calling-card for the New York-based independent label Boreas. With Lance Andrews at the engineering...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 6/2010

Bach French Suites

Edward Aldwell has a good reputation as a Bach pianist, especially in America, and hearing this recording I can see...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 7/2000

Holst Orchestral Works

Another splendid trawl through the treasurable Lyrita back-catalogue. Here's an uncommonly wide-ranging and generous selection of Holstian delights, encompassing music...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1993

Piano recital

After Barry Douglas's recent RCA concerto debut in the Tchaikovsky (RL89968; CD RD89968, 1/87), now a solo recital—with Pictures at...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1987

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Tchaikovsky asked for ''as many strings as possible'' for the performance of his string Serenade, one of his out-and-out masterpieces....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991

Walton Troilus and Cressida

This is an opera which, I confess, has obsessed me for over 40 years, ever since I saw the first...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 13, 14 and 30

The conditions Maria João Pires finds necessary for the realisation of her ideals are her business‚ not ours‚ so while...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2002

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