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Jackson Not No Faceless Angel

There are many striking features of this ravishing disc, beautifully and imaginatively performed by Stephen Layton and Polyphony. One is...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 13/2009

Walton Belshazzar's Feast; Crown Imperial; Orb and Sceptre

It was the Huddersfield Choral Society who made the ground-breaking first recording of Belshazzar’s Feast in 1943 at the height...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2004

Massenet (Le) Roi de Lahore

Le roi de Lahore, a big success story in its day (and ‘big’ for once seems the right word, for...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2006

Mozart Symphonies 25 & 39

The very opening of the slow introduction to No. 39 makes it abundantly clear that Muti has no thought of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1998

Requiem of Reconciliation

As I witnessed myself, it was a great event in Stuttgart on August 16th, greater than I had expected, and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1995

Mozart Piano Sonatas

Friedrich Gulda made a series of Mozart sonata recordings shortly before playing all the sonatas in three cycles of concerts...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2006

Bach Goldberg Variations

On the face of it, the seemingly insuperable difficulty about transcribing the Goldberg Variations for string orchestra is that they...

Reviewed in issue 9/1995

Tchaikovsky & Shakespeare

Hamlet comes first and is the most pleasing of the three items on Gustavo Dudamel’s latest anthology with his youthful...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2011

Oswald Vocal & Instrumental Works

The Scottish musical rococo is a rare commodity and yet James Oswald, a local musician’s son from the fishing village...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1999

Richter plays Russian Piano Concertos

Antique sound-quality, variable pitch, out-of-tune pianos, occasionally sub-standard orchestral playing, and yet this is a must for connoisseurs of great...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

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