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R. Strauss Salome

Karajan’s reading of this seminal work has always been noted for its glorious sensuousness (different from the sensuality found elsewhere):...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1999

Delius Appachalia; Brigg Fair

If it can't be Beecham, it should be Anthony Collins; if it can't be Anthony Collins, it should be Barbirolli....

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Beach Chanson d'Amour

Amy Beach’s best­selling piece was her setting of Pippa’s song‚ ‘The year’s at the spring’ with its famous conclusion: ‘God’s...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Massenet & Offenbach: Orchestral Works

Fremaux's Massenet collection still provides most enjoyable listening on its transfer to CD. This is most tuneful music, and it...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/1990

An Anthology of Czech Piano Music - Volume 1

As several commentators have pointed out, Dvorak's Theme with Variations owes something to Beethoven's Op. 26 Piano Sonata, though it...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1993

Frescobaldi Motets

Frescobaldi’s motets have received, if anything, less attention than his other vocal works. This disc has the merit of being...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1999

Copland Appalachian Spring & Other Orchestral Works

These are both super-budget price releases with two works overlapping. The competing versions of Appalachian Spring are the suite for...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2003

Stravinsky Ballets

Haitink's share is best represented by The Firebird—the first half especially—where his impressive sleight of hand dazzles us with the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Fauré Chamber Works

Recordings of both Faure’s piano quartets and quintets have become encouragingly frequent during the last few years, but Decca’s coupling...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1998

Vivaldi Montezuma

Vivaldi's opera Motezuma, as it was originally known, was first performed in Venice in the autumn of 1733. The text,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1993

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