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Beethoven Symphony No. 7; Prometheus Overture

The story of how Klemperer's 1955 Beethoven Seventh (familiar to most readers in its mono LP version) also came to...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1988

Verdi The Force of Destiny

The two EMI recordings of La forza del destino are rendered unignorable, their shortcomings pushed into the shadows, by two...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1987

Schubert Piano Works

Over two years have elapsed since Andras Schiff gave us his first disc of Schubert miniatures with the second set...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1992

Sounds of Splendour - 1830 Appelton Organ

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is most fortunate to house this exquisite two-manual chamber organ. This beautifully prepared disc...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/1999

De Falla Cuatro Piezas Españolas

The diminutive Spanish pianist (four feet nine inches) died at the age of 86 in September 2009. Her repertoire extended...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2011

Skempton Ben Somewhen

Thought of as a miniaturist, Howard Skempton has written many works whose impact is not necessarily in proportion to their...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2007

Pärt Symphony No 3

With Arvo Pärt the terms of comparison normally used for focusing differences between this or that recording tend to fall...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2003

Arnold Concertos

The brief concertos which Sir Malcolm Arnold has written for a whole range of instruments, generally inspired by particular performers,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1993

Schumann (Das) Paradies Und Die Peri

The successful Leipzig première in 1843 of Schumann’s then most ambitious undertaking, the ‘secular oratorio’ Das Paradies und die Peri,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/2003

Britten - Divine Musick

As a result of Britten’s illness in 1973, Peter Pears lost his regular recital partner. No other pianist would easily...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 1/2011

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