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Mahler Symphony no 2

Listening again to Gilbert Kaplan’s first recording of the Resurrection Symphony, I was reminded of the story in which, greeting...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2003

Handel Samson

One of the most popular of his oratorios in his lifetime—Handel revived it in no fewer than nine seasons between...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1994

Beethoven String Quartets Nos 6 and 7

This is the first in what is to be a complete Beethoven cycle from the Cleveland Quartet on Telarc. As...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1993

Ives Chamber Works

The four violin and piano sonatas are vintage Ives and a major part of the early twentieth-century repertory, less performed...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1997

Fritz Wunderlich - Opera Arias

Like Kathleen Ferrier, Fritz Wunderlich rose from obscurity to fame in 10 years, then died prematurely in his prime. Both...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2004

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 1

Bolet's splendidly sonorous account of the Rhapsody makes it sound as it must have done when it was new—challenging, even...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Verdi (La) Forza del Destino

This marks (I presume) the final offering from Opera Rara’s laudable restoration of BBC broadcasts from the 1970s and ’80s...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2006

Ives & Clarke Piano Trios

The Bekova Sisters originate from Kazakh-stan, were trained in Moscow and made their Western debut here just over a decade...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2000

Prokofiev Piano Works, Vol. 7

As Frederic Chiu’s survey of Prokofiev’s complete piano music draws to a close, we are inevitably presented with a good...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1998

Haydn The Seasons

On disc, at least, Haydn’s life-affirming celebration of an idealised rural world now rivals The Creation in popularity. Amid desirable...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/2011

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