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Mahler Symphony No. 5

David Zinman’s Mahler has been warmly received in many quarters. He is proceeding through the cycle chronologically and the Fifth...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2008

Rachmaninov Aleko

Pushkin's poem of gipsy infidelity, revenge and banishment surely deserved to become a great opera. The teenage Shostakovich had a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Arnold Orchestral Works

Like Grieg, Malcolm Arnold is essentially a miniaturist and, also like Grieg, he has written one exceptionally successful concerto, for...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1983

Gay/Britten (The) Beggar's Opera

This is the latest release in what should have been Richard Hickox’s ongoing Britten opera cycle. Although the conductor’s death...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2009

Das Konzert, Nov.1989 - Beethoven

In times of national political crisis music is bound to be called upon to play its part, and this was...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1990

Copland the Modernist

According to Virgil Thompson, jazz was Aaron Copland’s “one wild oat”. Maybe, but he sowed it with a will –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1997

Bach Trio Sonatas

Another Bach Trio Sonatas disc means more explanations. Following recent recordings of, among others, the complete ‘true’ trio sonatas from...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2000

Three Tenors

Look at this heading once (''Three Tenors! Surely we've had enough of these!'') and you might not feel inclined to...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Mahler Symphony No 9. R. Strauss Metamorphosen

It is a sad fact of life that new Mahler recordings are no longer eagerly awaited ‘events’ in which the...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Szymanowski Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Perhaps the best testament to Szymanowski’s musical judgement is that his Symphony No 3, containing an extended text by 13th-century...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 13/2011

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