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Bach Cantatas

There were some strong features in the two Naxos discs of Bach cantatas which I have reviewed (see September and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1993

Verdi La Traviata

Much as I admire the Aida reviewed below, if a choice had to be made I would go for this...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1987

Shostakovich Symphonies 1 & 6

In a field as competitive as this (needlessly competitive, I'd say: does the world really need eight CD recordings of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1990

Shostakovich Symphony No.5 in D Minor Op.47

Jaap van Zweden and Bernard Haitink have the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in common but on this evidence their Shostakovich is...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2009

Frank Martin conducts Frank Martin

The most important work here is the Harpsichord Concerto, which together with Poulenc's Concert champetre and the Falla, is one...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1989

Rossini Piano Works

The Swedish pianist Helge Antoni has assembled here a tempting hour's worth of late piano music by Rossini; there is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1991

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 4

I first heard Nikolai Lugansky, a young prize-winning Russian pianist, last year when two Rachmaninov recital discs came my way...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1996

Touching Colours

Recorded in St Arnual’s Collegiate Church, Saarbrücken, in February of this year, this Surround Sound disc deserves a wide circulation....

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 4/2004

Rózsa Orchestral Works

Following their recordings of Bernard Herrmann's Symphony (9/92) and pieces by Herrmann, Waxman and Rozsa (7/93), Koch continue to explore...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 9/1993

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 6

Scholarship pertaining to the 18th and early 19th centuries is misapplied. “Often fewer strings were used for concertos,” says Arthur...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2008

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