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Schumann: Works for Cello

We're told that the Spanish cellist, Lluis Claret, won first prizes at the Bologna, Casals and Rostropovitch competitions in the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1990

Mozart (Die) Entführung aus dem Serail

This Oscar Fritz Schuh production was recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in the bicentenary anniversary of Mozart’s birth, when...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2006

Ronald Stevenson: Piano Works

Call Ronald Stevenson a musical conservative at your peril. His politics, as his music has not been shy to declare,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Serkin Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls (c.1928)

How many concessions is the listener expected to make when confronted with 'playing' such as this? I started off by...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1994

Penderecki Orchestral Works

These 1970s analogue recordings were digitally remastered and reissued on separate mid-price CDs in the mid-1990s. It makes good sense...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Bach St Matthew Passion

They couldn’t be more different. Riccardo Chailly uses modern instruments including similarly pitched oboes d’amore and viola da gamba, to...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2010

Salieri/Steffan Concertos for Fortepiano

The two concertos by Salieri date from 1773, before he went to Vienna, and about the time of Mozart's first...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1995

Ravel Orchestral Works

The HMV coupling of Ravel's concertos by Jean-Philippe Collard and Lorin Maazel won much praise and a Gramophone Record Award....

Reviewed in issue 8/1983

Rachmaninov: Symphonies

These are modern digital recordings made in Moscow in 1984 and on the evidence of this set the Moscow Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1989

Margherita Carosio-The Early Recordings

“Undeniably a clever coloratura soprano. Yet her voice sounds hard, glottic, and at times even unsympathetic. Everything is bright, glittering,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

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