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Rossini Overture L'Italiana in Algeri; Brahms SymphonyNo.3; Schumann Symphony No.4

Not everyone loved Monteux. Stravinsky was not a fan (‘What a sad person, that Monteux!’) but many ordinary folk, disinterested...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Busoni Piano Works

Until he reached his mid twenties Busoni was an amazingly prolific composer. The F minor Sonata counts as an early...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1989

Bartók/Schoenberg/Veress Works for Strings

The closest musical relationship here is between Bartok and his piano student Sandor Veress, especially in the last of Veress’s...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Dvorák/Tchaikovsky String Serenades

Of these serenades the Tchaikovsky needs no description: a favourite both of string players and listeners for just over a...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Ravel orchestral works

There is much to admire in these performances under Abbado, who secures consistently polished and refined playing from the LSO....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986

Moniuszko Overtures

Moniuszko is always bracketed with Smetana and Erkel, as the originator of a national style for Polish opera as they...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1993

Rossini String Sonatas

Perhaps if I were to join the ranks of this magazine's endlessly discriminating contributors to the Euridice correspondence, someone at...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1991

Brahms/Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos

Nearly all the Toscanini Collection has been well-planned, but I cannot understand why Horowitz's performance of Pictures at an Exhibition...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Brian Legend; Songs

Approximately one quarter of Havergal Brian’s song output features on this superbly remastered issue, sung vividly in the Wigmore Hall...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2006

Fux Orchestral Works

These period-instrument performances augur well for a project to record the cycle of seven Partitas (Suites) which form Fux’s Concentus...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1999

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