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Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies

These recordings date from 1957-9 and were made at a time when Cziffra's star shone with a unique, unsurpassed brilliance....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1994

Gigli Arias and Duets

In the mid 1920s Gigli's voice was probably at its finest. Several of the recordings heard here show him in...

Reviewed in issue 5/1990

The Voices of Angels-Eton Choirbook, Volume V

These are vibrant performances, suitably varied in colour, nicely paced, and recorded with superb clarity. That is to say that...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1996

Bo Skovhus - Opera Arias

Try as I may, I couldn’t find any artistic plan or logic behind the choice of items for this oddly...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1998

Rameau Pieces de Clavecin en concert

Rameau's Pieces de clavecin en concerts were published in 1741, the idea for such pieces having been given to him...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1993

Cowell Chamber Works

Henry Cowell was an avant-garde pioneer with his tone-clusters; became a multi-culturalist, some of whose music falls midway between East...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 5/2005

Haydn Theresienmesse; Paukenmesse

The Missa in tempore belli of 1796 was Haydn’s reaction to Napoleon’s first threat to Austria. But this was no...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2008

Marsalis A Fiddler's Tale

Wynton Marsalis’s string quartet is all ‘about’ melding and crossing barriers, about Creole men and their Octoroon mistresses and the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Dvorák Piano Trios

A favourite and appropriate pairing – Dvorak’s most passionate chamber work in harness with one of his most genial. The...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.16

We all know of Ferdinand David as leader of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in its heyday under Mendelssohn who, incidentally,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1992

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