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Sergiu Celibidache Conducts Ravel & Debussy

You can find sound records of the same Debussy items from a month later in identically cultivated performances as part...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2008

Howard, JN Defiance OST

Violinist Joshua Bell clearly bears the pullingpower of this latest soundtrack from James Newton Howard. The film explores the fate...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 4/2009

450 years of the Staatskapelle Dresden

Dresden’s great Semper Opera House, reconstructed and reopened in 1985 after its wartime destruction, makes an imposing if sombre backdrop...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 3/2001

Brahms Historic Chamber Music Recordings

This collection has been well devised, since Heifetz rather surprisingly didn't re-record the Second Violin Sonata, and only Primrose recorded...

Reviewed in issue 6/1990

Mozart; Schumann Piano Concertos

This is the first fruit of the Russian superstar’s signing with EMI. I wish I could give it a positive...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2007

Brahms Orchestral Works

There are not too many recorded versions of the Brahms Double Concerto and this is the one reviewed by RL...

Reviewed in issue 11/1984

Alfredo Kraus - Con el Corazon

Released originally in Spain in 1991, these two CDs are reissued now as a tribute to the treasured tenor who...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2001

Korngold; Reznicek String Quartets

This is an interesting and valuable disc on two counts. First, it gives us an all too infrequent opportunity to...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Tchaikovsky Songs

Tales enticing as Arabian Nights are already being told, far and wide, of the deep purple velvet of this Armenian...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Schubert Piano Sonatas

Revaluations, as Dr Leavis fruitfully taught us, are peculiarly necessary when an interpretative tradition has lost the ability to distinguish...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1983

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