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Satie Orchestral Works

Admirers of Satie will not need a recommendation from me to seek out this well-filled and attractively played issue of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1990

Grieg Songs

Though Anne Sofie von Otter’s Gramophone Award-winning disc remains the clear choice for a single record devoted to...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Paisiello Piano Concertos, Volume 2

The four concertos recorded here are on a decidedly higher level that those on the companion disc (2/94), containing Nos....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1994

Orpheus I Am

The masque and preceding antimasque are rather less commonly to be seen today than in seventeenth-century England, if only because...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1992

Stravinsky The Rake's Progress

Nearly 20 years have passed since The Rake's Progress was last recorded, on CBS, under Stravinsky's own direction. That version...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1985

Falla Vocal & Orchestral Works

Though these two works were written fairly close in time to each other, and there is a slight resemblance between...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1994

Roberto Alagna - French Arias

This, it seems to me, is one of the best recitals Alagna has recorded. By juxtaposing familiar with somewhat lesser-known...

Reviewed in issue 4/2001

Schumann Piano Works

An identical coupling recently appeared from Mitsuko Uchida on Philips and prompted both praise and reservation from JOC. Yet both...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996

Bach Christmas Oratorio

There are now four or five highly recommendable readings of Bach's longest oratorio, though no clear leader emerges from those...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/1993

Mahler Symphony No 3

David Zinman is an extremely competent conductor whose spick-and-span Arte Nova surveys of Beethoven and Richard Strauss inspire critical superlatives...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2007

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