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Invocation à la Nuit

Night in its different aspects is invoked in this set, culled from the extensive discography of Jordi Savall’s several ensembles....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2008

Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha

Coleridge-Taylor said that he was first attracted to Hiawatha by the funny words. They, and the funny rhythms—occasionally too the...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol. 1

We are accustomed to looking to Pearl for gems from the past, and these transfers from previously unpublished live recordings...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1995

Maria Callas - Life & Art

The new EMI DVD offers a substantial improvement of sound and image over its video counterpart. The 1987 film, made...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2000

Beethoven (The) Complete Piano Concertos

These highly praised recordings from the early 1980s are reissued in a hinged cardboard triptych with no booklet – just...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2007

Literes Jupiter y Semele

Al Ayre Español continue their rehabilitation of the Spanish Baroque with a persuasive recording of a zarzuela by the 18th-century...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/2003

Works by Bottesini

The renaissance of the double-bass as a solo instrument, underlined by the Isle of Man Festival, got under way more...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1986

Rachmaninov/Scriabin Piano Works

Vladimir Sofronitzki is one of those names pianophiles love to conjure with. Trained in the post-Revolution Petrograd class of Leonid...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios

These three medium-price discs omit all the works without opus numbers rescued by Perlman/Harrell/Ashkenazy in their full-price four-disc set, as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1994

Aubin: Piano works

Though Tony Aubin was 73 when he died in 1981, the quarter-century or so he spent teaching at the Paris...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1986

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