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Vladimir Horowitz Piano recital

It is 60 years since Neville Cardus memorably called Horowitz ''the greatest pianist alive or dead''; and even today, when...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1992

Lisa della Casa sings R. Strauss

I was so much looking forward to re-acquainting myself with these classic performances made when della Casa was in her...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1990

Elgar Orchestral Works

No conductor alive today arouses more conflicting responses than Sinopoli. Like most conductors, he is volatile, better at some works...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Weelkes Cathedral Music

This is the tenth volume in Hyperion's eminently collectable series, ''The English Orpheus'', designed to extend acquaintance with English music...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

O, Fortuna! - Carl Orff and Carmina Burana

Should knowledge of a creative artist’s personal life and circumstances affect one’s appreciation of their output? Wagner’s virulent anti-Semitism does...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2009

Messa per Rossini

The Messa per Rossini was Verdi’s idea. Days after Rossini’s death in November 1868, he proposed to the publisher Ricordi...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2007

Music from the Court of Salzburg

This new double-album, entitled ''Music From the Court of Salzburg'', contains music by the two most illustrious mid-Baroque composers associated...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1986

Brahms Piano Concerto 1

The arrival of a Compact Disc some time after its LP version does give one the opportunity for more consideration...

Reviewed in issue 7/1983

Tippett The Rose Lake; Vision of St Augustine

Tippett has let it be known that The Rose Lake will be his last orchestral work, but except in the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Chopin Piano Works

The programme embraces Chopin’s Opp 33-38 with the exception of the two Nocturnes, Op 37 (a shame – there was...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2008

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