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Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro

The 1955 Kleiber Figaro, which I alluded to in my review of the reissued Giulini version in January, is another...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

Frankel Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6; Mephistopheles Serenade

Both these symphonies are filled with incident and drama, often quite astonishingly distilled from the simplest ingredients. The first movement...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1997

Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras Nos 2,4 and 8

If any parallels existed between Bach and Brazilian idioms, they were largely in Villa-Lobos’s mind – even the Fugue in...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1996

Stravinsky The Composer, Vol. 5

Volume 5 of Robert Craft's Stravinsky sequence continues the high musical standards and eccentric programme-building which characterized Vol. 4 (6/94)....

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Bach Gamba Sonatas

This is the fourth new recording of the Bach gamba sonatas to have come my way in the year 2000...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2001

Cyril Smith plays Rachmaninov

Here is a superb as well as nostalgic reminder of why Cyril Smith (1909-74) was among Rachmaninov’s favoured interpreters. Many...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1999

Vivaldi Choral Works

This is an interesting and mainly successful attempt to place a handful of Vivaldi's sacred vocal works in a liturgical...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1992

Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony

Despite forsaking London for St Petersburg in mid-cycle, Vladimir Ashkenazy’s approach to Shostakovich remains impressively consistent. For all the gains...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Bach Arrangements for Cello Piccolo

Anner Bylsma won me over completely with this recording. His musicianship is dazzling. Any reservations I may have had evaporated...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Telemann Various works

''A Legend Reborn'' is how Teldec have advertised the admirable relaunch of their Das Alte Werk label. Judging by the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1993

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