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Bizet (The) Fair Maid of Perth

This legendary 1949 broadcast joins the equally famous excerpts from Manon of 10 years earlier (Dutton, 7/97) on CD transfers,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/2000

Brahms/Dvorák Piano Trios

The pianist, Valerie Tryon, was of course well-known to English audiences before her emigration in 1971 to Canada, where she...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1992

Franck/R.Strauss Violin Sonatas

These two sonatas, written within a year of each other, make an unusual but very satisfying coupling, Strauss’s youthful exuberance...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1997

NI5565

“In a beautiful countryside, where the pineapple blossoms, the flowers smell, the palmgroves murmur, looking at the sky, a lovesick...

Reviewed by ssteward in issue: 13/1998

Light-Distance: 20th Century Portuguese Wind Quintets

There’s precious little Portuguese music on disc, so this wide-ranging and superbly played programme by the Galliard Ensemble is particularly...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 9/2004

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6; Romeo and Juliet

Bernard Shore, that acute observer from the front viola desk, hit the nail on the head when he said of...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1994

Martinu Symphonies Nos 3 and 4

This is Jirí Belohlávek’s third recording of Martinu’s life-enhancing Fourth Symphony (1945) and his second with the Czech Philharmonic. Both...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2004

Ferguson, H Piano Sonata; Discovery; (5) Bagatelles

Although Howard Ferguson (1908-99) may have decided to hang up his composing boots early (his final work, the large-scale cantata...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2010

Bernstein conducts Bernstein

This CD has been compiled from two separate LPs of shorter works that Bernstein recorded some four years ago. At...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1986

Dvorák; Elgar Cello Concertos

One of my favourite live recordings of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto is taken from the 1951 Prague Spring Festival and features...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2001

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