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Shostakovich Symphonies

Inbal's Shostakovich is cool, wistful and deracinated, very much an acquired taste – although those who have acquired it will...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Margarete Teschemacher (1903-1959)

To judge by the number of records she made, Teschemacher must have been one of the most popular sopranos in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992

Guédron Soupirs Meslés d'Amour

The rarefied charm of this quintessentially courtly music is well rendered by Claudine Ansermet’s light soprano; particular emphasis has been...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1998

Mozart Symphonies Nos. 33 & 40

The Academy of London; a new recording and performing group, has set itself up as an obvious competitor to another,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1986

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

Concerts seldom begin with overtures these days. Rimsky’s Overture for Ivan the Terrible which opens this Chandos collection would grace...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2007

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Just over a year ago, a recording of Gluck’s Orphee et Eurydice was issued with Ewa Podles in the central...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1999

Hindemith; Schoenberg; Pepping Organ Works

The Schoenberg Variations on a Recitative is one of the strangest works in the literature of the organ. For a...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/1995

Mahler Symphony No 4

There are aspects of Ozawa's Fourth that I enjoyed greatly. He would seem to be temperamentally better suited to this...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1988

Bruckner Complete Symphonies

Reviewing Bernard Haitink's 1965 account of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, Deryck Cooke wrote: ''The more I listen to Haitink's Bruckner performances,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1994

Stanford Organ Works

Hot on the heels of Desmond Hunter's recording of Stanford's complete sonatas (Priory, 9/94) comes this collection of shorter pieces....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/1995

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