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Shostakovich: Symphony No.5

There is a lot to be said for a reliably straightforward and superbly played account of Shostakovich's Fifth, especially if...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1991

Maria Ivogün (1891-1987)

Here is one of the loveliest of all the century's sopranos, heard in a fine selection of her best recordings....

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Liszt Organ Works

In the February issue I welcomed, for different qualities, Thomas Trotter's performance of three Liszt works plus the Reubke Sonata...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1991

Villa-Lobos Choral Works

Villa-Lobos’s vocal music remains probably the least-known area of his compositional output, the celebrated vocal Fifth and choral Ninth of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2011

Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor

Once considered musically incomprehensible and technically un- playable, the Liszt Sonata is now part of the repertoire of virtually every...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2004

Beethoven Symphony No 9

There is a sense of occasion about this recording of the Ninth Symphony generated not by musicological probings or contingent...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1991

Purcell The Prophetess; The Fairy Queen

Purcell’s death in 1695 galvanized many would-be editors into feverish action. Publications of songs, sonatas and solo keyboard music appeared...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/1997

Musik-Triennial 1

These two DVDs celebrate the visit in April 2000 of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the Cologne Triennial Music Festival...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Mozart Così fan tutte

I shall now shock the purists and all those who believe that perfection in the studio using big-name singers and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1992

Berners Orchestral Works

When Lord Berners died in 1950 Constant Lambert's broadcast tribute rightly discussed the man's eccentricity; his flock of pigeons dyed...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

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