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Souvenirs

Chung dispatches her 19 souvenirs with endearing candour and a refreshing lack of affectation. Dvorak’s Humoresque is served in Wilhemj’s...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Cradle Song

This album provides a companion to Julian Lloyd Webber’s much admired “Cello Song” a couple of years ago (10/93), and...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1996

Ravel Orchestral Works

Haitink will be 70 next year, and, like Boulez before him, he now returns with the wisdom of experience to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1998

Bizet Carmen

Here is an opera DVD where, rare in my experience, each individual element matches the excellence of the others: production,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2010

Revueltas La Cornela; Itinerarios; Colorines

With two first recordings on this disc (only Itinerarios, under the title Caminos, has appeared previously – ASV, 8/89), the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1999

Bach Das Wohltempierte Klavier: Book 1

A musician I know plays a prelude and fugue from the 48 first thing every morning, in order, he says,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1989

Schubert Symphonies Nos 8 & 9

Sir Charles’s ‘discovery’ of the autograph score’s alla breve marking for the Ninth Symphony’s introduction and his other textual concerns...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999

Chopin Nocturnes

For Pollini, Chopin has been part of his life since his triumph in the 1960 Chopin Competition in Warsaw. And...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2006

Romantic Cello Sonatas

Curiously, just like my colleague, JM-C, when he reviewed the last recording of Chopin's Sonata from Gary Hoffman and Jean-Philippe...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1994

Mozart (Die) Entführung aus dem serail

This lively production originated at Baden Baden in 2003 and moved to the Aix-en-Provence Festival the following year. Marc Minkowski...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2007

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