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Mendelssohn Choral Works

Die erste Walpurgisnacht, or ''The First Walpurgis Night'', is an odd but interesting work. Mendelssohn based it on a poem...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990

Schubert Piano Trios

The young members of the Storioni Trio of Amsterdam, founded in 1995, here give exceptionally light and sparkling accounts of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2007

Uccellini Chamber Works

Following up their much acclaimed recording of suites and sonatas by Nicola Matteis (9/92), the Arcadian Academy have produced another...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Penderecki A Polish Requiem; The Dream of Jacob

It might be thought ironic that the first complete recording of so intensely personal and national a work as Penderecki’s...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/1997

Wagner;Pfitzner Violin Concertos

“Romantic Violin Concertos”: imperishable masterpieces by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Bruch come instantly to mind. But this CD offers quite...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2011

Debussy Orchestral Works

Rahbari is a sensitive and perceptive Debussian, and the Brussels orchestra a disciplined body; together they are capable, most of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1993

Lesley Garrett - The Gold Collection

As we have known for many years now, Lesley Garrett is a gifted and accomplished light soprano, good in Handel...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2003

Dominic Piers Smith - (The) Power of Dreaming

One should not submit to the sin of envy but I must admit to a twinge when reading in the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2010

Haydn String Quartets, Op 71

This is bold music, as inventive as we expect from this master who was writing shortly after his sixtieth birthday...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Beniamino Gigli Operatic Arias

Neither last nor least of the Gigli centenary recitals, this from RCA draws on the famous tenor's American decade from...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

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