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Shostakovich Symphony No 13, 'Babi Yar'

If all that mattered in Shostakovich’s 13th was the “Babi Yar” setting that first motivated it, then there would be...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2006

Shostakovich Symphony No.10

Recordings of Shostakovich's most symphonically conceived symphony continue to flood in—see the review (page 51) of Erato's Mravinsky Edition for...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Mussorgsky Boris Godunov

What we have here is, literally, two operas for the price of one. That is to say, the two records...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1998

Spohr Chamber Works

The finest work on this record is the late Sextet, which has often been suggested as an influence on Brahms's...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1994

Mozart Symphonies Nos 40 & 41

It is a while now since Bruno Weil and Tafelmusik made classical-period music together in the first days of Sony...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2008

Philips & Dering Motets

Peter Philips and Richard Dering make a happy coupling, as this disc of neatly paired settings of similar texts demonstrates....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1991

Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

The revival of Monteverdi's music for St Mark's is welcome, since much of it is very fine. His main job...

Reviewed in issue 2/1984

Lyapunov: Orchestral Works

Lyapunov was a pupil of Tchaikovsky and more crucially, of Balakirev, whose formidably interventionist teaching methods he repaid with the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1989

Simpson Chamber Works

Here is yet another invigorating and thought-provoking disc in Hyperion’s invaluable Simpson cycle. It’s difficult to avoid the familiar adjectives,...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Herbert, M - Songs

Muriel Herbert (1897- 1984) was a protégée of Roger Quilter, who arranged for the earliest publication of some of her...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 8/2009

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