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Rachmaninov (The) Bells

Recorded at the International Rostropovich Festival in Moscow earlier this year, this programme has Rachmaninov’s choral symphony The Bells at...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 13/2010

Francis Poulenc & Friends

Any devotee of Poulenc and his music will find this DVD entrancing to watch and to listen to. It opens...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/2006

Barber Antony and Cleopatra

The success of Barber's earlier opera, Vanessa, at the Metropolitan, led that great New York opera house to commission him...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1986

Western Poets in Russian Music, Volume 1

Try not to be put off by the Mills and Boon title and cover (overleaf): there is an intelligent idea...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2000

Schubert Winterreise

I have for long appreciated Ian Partridge's account of Die schone Mullerin for its straightforward singing and plangent interpretation. Now,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1989

Haydn String Quartets, Op. 74 / 2 & 3

Anyone who has associated period instruments with thin tone and cool, objective interpretation will need to adjust his or her...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1987

Shostakovich Piano Concertos, etc

These are well-prepared performances, decently recorded, which will serve adequately at super-budget price. The Festive Overture is properly ebullient, and...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Schütz (The) Psalms of David

The Psalmen Davids, published in 1619, are Schutz's earliest sacred works, representing the realization of the 34-year-old composer's desire ''to...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/1991

Bach Motets

This new recording of Bach's motets includes all but O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht, BWV118. That one was included...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1985

Lewensohn Odradek

Gideon Lewensohn (b1954) is an Israeli composer and teacher for whom the past – at least as far back as...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2003

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