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Ravel: Mélodies

I don't recall another version of Sheherazade recorded in the piano version, made in 1903 (the orchestral version dates from...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1988

Rothschild's Violin

This is something of an event for followers of Shostakovich and Soviet music. Venyamin Fleyshman (or, in less scholarly form,...

Reviewed in issue 4/1997

Beethoven: Early String Quartets

Hans Keller, that ardent opponent of the gramophone record did admit that recordings have one advantage L the case of...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1990

Berlioz Orchestral Works

The Symphonie fantastique was born out of Berlioz's experiences with the quarrel between classicists and romantics over Shakespeare, and as...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1994

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture; Moscow Cantata; Slavonic March

Expect to hear a whole lot of the Russian National Anthem in this collection of festive Tchaikovsky. The pieces were,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2010

Sullivan HMS Pinafore

Of all the major Gilbert and Sullivan two-act works, this is the one that Telarc was always going to have...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1995

Handel Rinaldo

Naxos’s first foray into Handel opera is the composer’s spectacular first London opera, performed at the Queen’s Theatre in 1711....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2006

Puccini (La) Boheme

Dating from 1965‚ this is a thoroughly old­fashioned opera film. As was often Karajan’s practice‚ the singers mime to their...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Sibelius (The) Tempest

This new release contains BIS’s second complete recording of Sibelius’s Op 109: the Overture and two concert Suites (each of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2012

Classical Violin Sonatas

The 18-year-old Siberian-born Maxim Vengerov now lives in Israel. Winner of the 1990 Carl Flesch Competition, he had previously appeared...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1993

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