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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5; STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring (Karajan)

Karajan’s 1968 Prokofiev Fifth is a great performance. Whenever one compares it with later versions inevitably the DG account holds...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2000

Weir Blond Eckbert

Ludwig Tieck’s novella Der Blonde Eckbert (1796) is a dark tale of incest and despair made even darker by the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2006

Pintscher Herodiade-Fragments etc

Born in 1971‚ Matthias Pintscher is by some way the youngest German composer with the beginnings of an international reputation....

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Grieg Peer Gynt; Sigurd Jorsalfar

The new DG set and Per Dreier's Unicorn-Kanchana set both advertise a complete recording of Grieg's music for Peer Gynt,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1988

Beethoven String Quartets, Opp 127 & 130

The Borodins’ Beethoven series has, with this fourth volume, reached the halfway mark – time for assessment, perhaps. The impact...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2005

Concerti Italiani

Neat, eh? Concerto Italiano playing ‘Concerti Italiani’. Rinaldo Alessandrini’s group build their latest disc around a violin-concerto orchestration of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2004

Toscanini conducts Debussy

Emanuel Ax is a thoughtful Brahms artist, and his recording of the composer's piano quartets with Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1992

Kronos Quartet - Floodplain

The underlying theme of Kronos’s latest album is floodplains as a (to quote the booklet-note) “fertile place where margins advance...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 8/2009

Birtwistle (The) Minotaur

The speedy DVD release of new, or relatively new, operas – John Adams’s Doctor Atomic and Unsuk Chin’s Alice in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2009

Mozart Requiem

The romantic aura surrounding Mozart's Requiem is such that one tends to feel slightly cheated by a performance that does...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1990

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