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Rachmaninov Works for Piano & Orchestra

Such is the luxuriance of sound revealed in these remasterings, it is difficult to believe the recording dates; and such...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Tippett Orchestral Works

For the past 16 years Sir Colin Davis's recording of Tippett's Second Symphony has etched into the mind the way...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1994

Bridge Piano Music, Vol 1

Composer, conductor, teacher and viola player, Frank Bridge was also an accomplished pianist and every track on this enormously appealing...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2006

Donizetti Rosmonda d'Inghilterra

With the persistence of the bel canto revival, or more specifically the unearthing, editing and performance of forgotten early nineteenth-century...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Schmidt-Garre Sophia: Biography of a Violin Concerto

When Sofia Gubaidulina agreed to write a violin concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2006, the spectre of her earlier, cultishly...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2011

Mozart Violin Sonatas

This selection of Mozart piano and violin sonatas offers one from the Mannheim-Paris set of 1778, one from the set...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1998

Grainger Rambles and Reflections

These short pieces range from simplicity to elaboration‚ from innocence to experience; most of them are homages to many of...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Rathaus Orchestral Works

Karol Rathaus was one of those indirect victims of Nazism that Decca’s Entartete Musik series has been so indispensable in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1998

R. Strauss Tone Poems

Impressive sound with clean, well-lit detail and plenty of range. All three performances are eminently serviceable withou being really distinguished....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1983

Smetana Má vlast

Smetana’s Ma vlast represents the Lisztian tone-poem at its most imposing and although based on Czech national legend, is fairly...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

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