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Albert Spalding Archive Performances

Albert Spalding (1888-1953) was an American violinist who studied in Bologna and Paris and achieved a successful career before and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex

Oedipus rex is among the least recorded of Stravinsky's major works, perhaps because it offers conductors few opportunities to shine....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1990

Ileana Cotrubas - Salzburger Liederabend (1979)

Ileana Cotrubas’s operatic career didn’t allow her enough time to develop what was clearly a deep affinity for song. At...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/1998

Enescu Piano Works

It’s not often that I recommend readers go straight to the closing tracks of a CD, but in this case...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2003

La Rue Masses

The Clement Janequin Ensemble are on cracking form here. They approach the L'homme arme Mass with just the kind of...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1989

Fazil Say - Alla Turca

The Turkish star pianist comes across in this indifferent 2005 documentary as a likeable, self-effacing musician who is as diverse...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2008

Beethoven Symphony No. 3; Egmont Overture

Szell regularly conducted foreign orchestras at the Salzburg Festival in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s: the Berlin Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1996

Brahms & Schumann: Complete String Quartets

Apart from the Takacs Quartet, whose spirited, youthful account for Hungaroton/Conifer (4/88) of Schumann's three quartets was marred by inferior...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1989

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

Here we have, in its entirety, what one might term the Old Testament of The Ring recordings, the discs made...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1995

Shostakovich Symphony No 13, Op 113

This live recording is dutiful rather than revelatory, risking few individualistic inflexions in its pursuit of enduring musical values. Despite...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

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