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Khachaturian conducts Khachaturian

From the 1950s onwards Khachaturian made records quite regularly in the Soviet Union. There were also sessions for Supraphon in...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Enescu & Villa-Lobos: Cello Works

An enterprisingly off-beat programme of works which even many cellists will not know. Enescu's second cello sonata of 1935 is...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1990

A Tribute To Johann Strauss

Here is an imaginatively conceived and brilliantly executed collection of vocal Johann Strauss numbers. This is quite the most exciting...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2000

Albéniz Iberia. Falla Three Cornered Hat.

After both Debussy and Ravel had turned down Falla's suggestion of an orchestration of Iberia, the scoring was eventually undertaken...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1991

Rogier Missa Ego sum qui sum; Motets

Most of Rogier’s substantial output was lost in the 18th century and that destruction, combined with his early death, probably...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2010

Mozart Piano Concertos

In these Vox recordings from the late 1950s Brendel firmly underlines Mozart’s dynamic exploitation of dramatic forces in these two...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Barbara Strozzi (La) virtuosissima cantatrice

Alongside the opening of the first public opera houses in Venice in the 1630s, the early seventeenth century also witnessed...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 1/1995

Britten: Vocal Works

Britten's famous recording of the Spring Symphony has acquired a brightness on CD (or perhaps it was there all along,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1990

Rossini Adelaide di Borgogna

I don't know when precisely Warner Music acquired Fonit Cetra but it has clearly been doing a certain amount of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2000

Reubke Piano and Organ Works

As a prize-winning organist as well as a pianist, Jeremy Filsell reminds us that Julius Reubke (son of a renowned...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1997

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