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Bulgarian Soul

There was something of a craze for traditional Bulgarian vocal music in the late 1980s, sparked by the release of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 1/2004

Bach Goldberg Variations

On screen, the Villa Trissino Marzotto in Vicenza, Italy, conveys a spacious yet intimate impression that totally jibes with how...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2008

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 & 1812 Overture

Recorded live, Barenboim and the Chicago orchestra give a warm, powerful and beautifully paced reading of the Fifth, freely expressive...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1996

Prokofiev/Shostakovich/Schnittke Cello Sonatas

Schnittke’s Cello Sonata of 1978 is one of his more memorable works. The manic arpeggiations and seasick heavings of its...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

The 20th-Century Cello

The sound on this disc is absolutely stunning – and the playing is pretty impressive too: but what about the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1995

Schubert Symphony No. 9

There is a strongly defined image associated with the name Erich Kleiber: ''almost fanatical ardour...utmost possible precision...strictly non-sentimental'' (Grove). It...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1988

R. Strauss: Orchestral Works

Judging by these three discs, one might imagine that the orchestras of Eastern Europe were doing nothing except record Strauss's...

Reviewed in issue 3/1991

A Rose of Swych Virtu

This group from New Mexico was unknown to me before their present record came my way. Its title suggested that...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/1993

Casella Complete Piano Works

Here on a three-CD album Lya de Barberiis gives us the complete piano music of Alfredo Casella (1883-1947), a substantial...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2003

Beethoven Sym Nos 3 & 8

The opera Palestrina has given Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) a kind of musical immortality, but he was a conductor, too. For...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: /2000

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