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Ravel: Orchestral works

The glowingly rich, cathedral-like acoustic of the Concertgebouw helps to engender a sense almost of awe at the effortless, cultured...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

(The) Unknown Richard Struass, Vol 4

Koch Schwann has been commemorating the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death with an ‘Unknown Strauss’ edition. This, their fourth...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Richard Strauss: Lieder

Margaret Price captures her audience so adroitly in the first song that she can hardly do anything amiss thereafter. In...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Ricercari - (The) Art of the Century in Italy

Liuwe Tamminga continues his fascinating investigation of early Italian keyboard music with this anthology of ricercars from the sixteenth and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/1999

Dame Joan Sutherland & Marilyn Horne - Arias and Sacred Songs

Preconceptions, underratings, missed opportunities, or sheer flaming ignorance: all can be remedied here. Did we, by any chance, imagine that...

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker

I praised this set highly in December—it is desert island fare for me—and commented on the many felicities of both...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1986

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 3 'Pastoral'

Vaughan Williams completed three Norfolk Rhapsodies, the second of which languished unperformed for nearly nine decades until this exemplary first...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2003

Vivaldi Dresden Concertos

So far, Opus 111’s thoroughly enjoyable Vivaldi series exploring the contents of the giant archive in the National University Library...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2002

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 8 & 9

Mozart's K271 is his first great piano concerto and one of his earliest masterpieces of any kind. The two performances...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Beethoven String Quartet, Op 131

In the late 1970s Bernstein recorded Op. 131 with the strings of the Vienna Philharmonic for DG, inspired as he...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1991

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