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Oboe and Trio Sonatas

Marcel Ponseele is currently one of the most expressive baroque oboists around. His contributions to many recordings by Philippe Herreweghe...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/2000

Her Song

There’s nothing like keeping it in the family. At the very heart of this appealing programme soprano Susan Gritton lends...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2010

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4

Gilels's 1950s Beethoven concerto cycle with Vandernoot and Ludwig (Columbia—nla) has always been generally better liked than this later cycle...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989

Prokofiev/Rachmaninov Concertos for Piano and Orchestra

These performances date from 1957 and 1991‚ but Cherkassky’s delight in difference‚ his love of impish slants‚ voicings and perspectives‚...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Clemens Non Papa Requiem; Penitential Motets

For years it was suspected that some sort of joke lay behind the sobriquet “non Papa” that so often attaches...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2011

Bach Violin Concertos

In his LP review RF spoke of ''the wonderfully clear digital recording'' and this is heard to best advantage in...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1983

Bach Goldberg Variations

This truly astonishing performance was recorded in 1981, 26 years after Gould's legendary 1955 disc. Gould was not in the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1993

Wagner Tristan & Isolde

This staging for the Metropolitan in December 1999 was received with enthusiasm, as Mike Ashman relates in his interesting booklet....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2004

Medtner Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3

With this recording Naxos completes its Medtner concerto cycle with Scherbakov. To have such romantic richness – once the province...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2000

Luciano Pavarotti Live in Barcelona

The Spanish announcer promises an event with ‘something of the character of a rock concert’. Mercifully, there is nothing of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2004

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