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Fusion - transcriptions for accordion & harmonica

Lili Kraus – born in Budapest in 1905 – was already a much-admired recording artist before the Second Wolrd War,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1998

Casals plays Works for Cello and Orchestra

It is a pity for Philips that the Julian Lloyd Webber version, recorded in Prague last year, was not ready,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989

Koussevitzky Gramophone Premieres

You are not likely to find a more characterful performance of Copland’s El salon Mexico than this premiere recording by...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1997

Stokowski – The Classic 1947-49 Columbia Recordings, Vol 1

When Stokowski made the first of these recordings with the New York Philharmonic it was with an orchestra whose playing...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2003

Jenkins Fantazia

It is common enough to find recordings of Purcell or Byrd from continental ensembles, but a more insular figure like...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/2005

William Byrd and his Age

I remember that when this recording was first released in 1958 it caused a sensation among the musically inclined of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1995

Loewe Three Piano Sonatas

Very little is known of Loewe outside the songs and ballads: one of the oratorios by which he set such...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1997

Charpentier Louise

Although composed in the 19th century, Charpentier’s Louise is essentially the first real 20th-century opera, its premiere in April 1900...

Reviewed in issue 12/2000

Mendelssohn/Dvorák Violin Concertos

EMI have really put us in their debt in recent months with a number of outstanding historic issues from their...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1988

Kurtág: 80

This release is more than a memento of Gyorgy Kurtag’s 80th birthday concerts, featuring works not yet recorded commercially. Of...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 2/2008

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