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Airs d'Opéras Francais-Natalie Dessay

With a happy alternation of the familiar and recherche, the programme would have held our attention even if the performances...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Paganini (24) Caprices

There are many triumphant musical arrangements – Bach translating Vivaldi from violins to harpsichords, Ravel orchestrating Mussorgsky, Liszt’s treatment of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2010

Leonard Bernstein - Omnibus

The films Leonard Bernstein made for Alistair Cooke’s Omnibus programme between 1954 and ’58 are as fundamental to understanding his...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2010

Tchaikovsky/Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

It is, perhaps, unfortunate that booklet-note writers do not have the opportunity to hear the particular recording of the work...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1994

J.C. Bach Symphonies concertantes, Vol. 1

It seems an odd type of concerto that can have a pair of violins as soloists in the outer movements...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1997

Bach; Mozart; Vivaldi Concertos

Recorded in July 1984, we are told, with the purpose of ''commemorating'' (celebrating, surely?) an event in 1985—the first tour...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Miaskovsky Symphony No 6

After all the appeals I have put in for a recording of this symphony, I still cannot possibly give the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Babbitt Quantrains; Soli e Duettini; Swang Song No 1

Milton Babbitt has long claimed that his most famous title, Who Cares If You Listen?, was not his original heading...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 2/2004

Elizabethan Street Songs

The repertory of Elizabethan street songs must be like mother’s milk to Tarleton’s Jig, a multivalent quartet that acts as...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2009

Liszt Piano Works

Valerie Tryon’s generous ‘Liszt Odyssey’ mirrors both her genial nature and her dedication to the idea of music as a...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2005

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