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Schubert Winterreise, D911

However many versions one may have heard of this cycle in public and on disc in recent years, there should...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1991

Elgar Orchestral Works

Slatkin's devotion to, and understanding of Elgar is again impressively evident in his recording of the First Symphony. RCA have...

Reviewed in issue 6/1991

Arensky: Orchestral Works

Born 21 years after Tchaikovsky and 20 years before Stravinsky, Anton Stepanovich Arensky belongs to that in-between generation (with Grechaninov,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Couperin Keyboard Works

Alexandre Tharaud’s 2001 disc of Rameau keyboard works (5/02) was a refreshing demonstration that French harpsichord music can be convincingly...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2007

Shostakovich: Symphony No.10, etc

Three new Tenths, and appearing simultaneously? No, my spirits didn't sink at the prospect (despite ten rival recordings in the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1991

Watkins Ale

Here is the territory of the mixed ('broken') consort, with more than a touch of our own Broadside Band and...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1992

American Piano Classics

After a miserable evening listening to below-par performances of much-recorded repertoire this came as a real tonic—by no standards could...

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Beethoven Complete Symphonies, etc

Haitink's second Beethoven cycle was greeted warmly by RO when it first appeared (6/88), reservations about the Second Symphony (''curiously...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1994

Grieg Peer Gynt

Paavo Järvi here follows his father, Neeme, in recording Grieg’s Peer Gynt music substantially complete but, where Järvi senior on...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2005

Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony

Choice here is quite clear. The Ormandy version of the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony is recorded in a very 'swimmy' acoustic,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1984

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