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Wilhelm Kempff - Complete 1950s Concertos Recordings

Here on five CDs are Wilhelm Kempff’s complete Decca and DG concerto recordings dating from the 1950s. Most mercurial of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2003

Rossini Arias for Mezzo-soprano

Formidable! A voice to hold children from play and old men from the chimney corner. Calbo’s manly aria in Maometto...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos, etc

''I wrote it for elephants,'' exclaimed Rachmaninov, shaking his head in fear and disbelief over the difficulties of his Third...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1992

Joplin Piano Works

These delightful classical rags – so memorable – have been performed in many ways. Absolutely straight, by the likes of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/2000

Wagner Siegfried

The Decca engineers have done it again. Here is a more truthful, realistic acoustic than that we have heard on...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1984

Johann Schobert Chamber Works

Johann Schobert is a composer for whom I have long nurtured a soft spot, and this disc only makes it...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1989

Vivaldi Violin Concertos

Viktoria Mullova isn’t quite a Baroque violinist – her Strad is fitted with gut strings, she’s using a Baroque bow...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2005

La Procession - Eighty Years of French Song

The increasingly long list of song records made by Hyperion is one of the main pleasures of the current catalogue....

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Cello Concertos

What an amiable fellow Offenbach must have been! This rediscovered concerto rondo begins with a mock military fanfare, complete with...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/1986

Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992 Anniversary Box Set

Here’s some overmatter from the Messiaen centenary last year. The 14-CD EMI set is one of those incredibly useful, disarmingly...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2009

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