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Mozart Don Giovanni

This is not, I'm afraid, the Don Giovanni we've all been waiting for. The clashing of swords, obediently marking time...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1986

Schoenberg/Berg/Webern Chamber Works

Previous Duke Quartet CDs for Collins Classics have involved such imaginative cross-period couplings as Dvorak and Philip Glass (1/94), and...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite. Serenade, Op 48

The sound of this CD is very agreeable, warm and full, with detail very marginally more refined than the LP,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1985

Martinu Czech Rhapsody

MartinJ was largely self-taught and, he said himself, a late developer. The Czech Rhapsody (in fact an extended patriotic cantata)...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1989

Szymanowski; Rozycki String Quartets

This is what Szymanowski needs: firm, full-bodied playing, with a wide range of dynamic, colour and attack, and with all...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2009

Canteloube Chant d' Auvergne

For her second CD devoted to Joseph Canteloube’s vocal music, Véronique Gens has looked beyond the celebrated, much-recorded Chants d’Auvergne,...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 12/2007

Golden Age of English Organ Music

For a century or so the parts of this organ have been stored in packing cases. Only in 1985–6 were...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1990

Wagner/Stokowski Symphonic Syntheses

It would be hard to imagine a more sumptuous disc. Stokowski, in these “symphonic syntheses”, enhances Wagner’s already opulent orchestration...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2007

Mozart Don Giovanni

For all that most of the singers here are quite young and comparatively little known, this is an impressive set...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/2003

F. Couperin Organ Works

Everything combines here to create one of the most satisfying recordings of classical French organ music I've yet to hear....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1994

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