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Russian Song Recital

My review copy of this excellent disc contained no booklet, so I can pass on no biographical information about Torleif...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

Bach Cello Suites 1-3

Though the notes here – in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese – include about 150 words on the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1998

Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasia

These are both highly estimable performances, notable for the warmth and elegance of their accompaniments (to say nothing of sparkle...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1984

Gounod (La) Colombe

Here is enough charm to occupy an evening, though probably not more. Gounod’s 1860 opéra comique La colombe finds the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 13/2011

Bruckner Symphony No 8

There exist three live Furtwangler recordings of this symphony (plus another, 1954, version of doubtful origin). A 1944 recording in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Torelli Concerti Grossi, Op.8

Torelli wrote a lot of 'with-trumpet' music, of which numerous recordings exist, but, considering his importance in the development of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1994

Gershwin: Orchestral Works

It's hard going back to Grofe's full orchestral version of Rhapsody in Blue after his jazz-band original with its wonderfully...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1989

Beethoven String Quartets 2, 6 & 16

Robert Simpson believed that the Adagio cantabile of the G major Quartet was ‘the only really perfunctory movement in Op...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2001

Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict

Berlioz’s last opera, his “caprice written with the point of a needle”, has fared well over the years on record,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1996

Servais: Souvenirs & Caprices

Few today but cellists—and probably not many of them—are likely to know much about Adrien-Francois Servais. Such is fame! Called...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1988

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