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Khachaturian & Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos

I first heard Moura Lympany some 45 years ago in a recital at the Gaumont Cinema, Taunton, and still remember...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1989

Karg-Elert Complete Organ Works, Vol 2

It’s rather easy to label Karg-Elert as the natural successor to his fellow late-19th/early-20th-century German composer Max Reger, as they...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 4/2006

Mussorgsky Works for Orchestra

Mussorgsky by name, but not necessarily by nature. Virtually everything on this musically varied CD has been orchestrated by another...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Waxman (The) Song of Terezin. Zeisl Requiem Ebraico

The booklet accompanying this CD is illustrated by a stark photograph of the crematorium at Terezin in 1945. Of the...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/1999

Zinka Milanov Opera & Song Recital

Milanov was the reigning spinto soprano at the Metropolitan for 20 years and more from 1937, when she made her...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1990

Holst The Planets

New versions of The Planets seem to be arriving almost as frequently as those of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I have...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (in English)

I learnt this work from performances in English, first at the old Sadler's Wells, then in a memorable BBC TV...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1994

Stravinsky Symphony No 1; Firebird

The sins of Stravinsky’s youth gathered together on one disc. A certain amount of speculation will probably always surround the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1999

Liszt Dante Sonata

You will have to go a long way to hear more masterly, prize-winning performances than these, a more immaculate white-tie-and-tails...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2007

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

These performances were made in the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg in November 2001. This SACD version is der-ived from 48kHz/24-bit...

Reviewed by ihumphreys in issue: 2/2004

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