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Liszt Orchestral Works

List is a composer who always seems to bring out the best in Karajan. Although the recording sessions for this...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Ivar Andrésen (1896-1940) - I

''Ivar Andresen has been magnificent,'' said The Musical Times reporting on the season at Covent Garden in 1929. ''One could...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Mulet: Organ Works

Mulet is known for only two pieces, the Carillon-Sortie and ''Tu es petra'' from the Esquisses byzantines. Perversely, neither is...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1989

Mozart: Early Piano Concertos

The nicest thing to say about these four piano concertos is that they are perfectly respectable music of the period....

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1988

Mozart Don Giovanni

I first encountered Solti as an opera conductor in this work at Glyndebourne in 1955. I found his direction cool,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1991

Villon to Rabelais

I have rarely heard an Anglo-Saxon early music ensemble declaim French quite so convincingly. This recital from The Newberry Consort...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1999

Wispelwey plays Chopin, Fauré & Poulenc

A splendid-sounding recording – with exceptional balance and definition, and attractively full tone from cello and piano. I note that...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/1998

SK64133

Not even CD can quite simulate the vast time-span of Einstein on the beach, the seemingly endless wall of Glass...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Mozart Wind Serenades

This latest version of the so-called Gran Partita (the title isn’t Mozart’s) enters a very competitive field. These French players...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/1997

Kabalevsky Orchestral Works, Volume 10

In his insert-note to the present record, Per Skans compares Kabalevsky to Gian Carlo Menotti, for their mutual understanding of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1997

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