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Telemann Orchestral Suites

Telemann is never more irresistible than when he is in light-hearted pictorial mode, and both these new releases feature one...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2003

Verdi (La) Traviata (DVD)

Peter Hall’s 1987 staging for Glyndebourne‚ also directed by him for video‚ was recorded without an audience‚ enabling him to...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Rameau Platée

Rameau's comedie-lyrique, Platee, one of two such works from his pen, was first staged at Versailles in 1745 as part...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1990

Tishchenko Symphony No 7

Not very much of Boris Tishchenko’s substantial list of works has so far appeared on record. It includes ten piano...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2004

Dvorák/Janácek Orchestral Works

In the Dvorak, Masur's typically Austro-German approach—as ever, one of gripping integrity—yields a few surprising echoes of Bruckner along the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1994

Casals plays Classical & Romantic Concertos

The leonine growl that prefaces Elgar’s most introspective orchestral masterpiece is played here with uncompromising defiance, whereas the weary solo...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Brahms/Schoenberg Orchestral Works

Schoenberg was a great admirer of Brahms's music, and saw himself as a natural successor to the German romantic school....

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 11,12 and 13

Recorded live in Berlin in December 1995 and March 1996, these performances compensate in spontaneity and animation what they sacrifice...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 10/1997

Prokofiev/Shostakovich Sonatas for Cello and Piano

This really is most appealing. Both soloists were hitherto unknown to me and the accompanying booklet, alas, ensures that they...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1994

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 130; Grosse Fuge

Even from the first movement’s opening bars, you sense you are in line for an exceptional Op. 130. The dramatic...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

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