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Liszt New Discoveries, Vol 3

More than a decade after Leslie Howard seemingly put his comprehensive Liszt cycle to bed, so to speak, the indefatigable...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 3/2011

Brahms Piano Concerto 1

When Barry Douglas won his first prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1986 he was promptly engaged...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1989

Bartók Violin Concertos

Bartok's passion for the violinist Steffi Geyer inspired two very different musical love-letters: the First Violin Concerto and the Two...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

Une flûte invisible...

It is something of a fancy for Gilles de Talhouët to describe this as an imaginary chamber opera, for the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2006

Puccini Madama Butterfly

The great strength of this set is de los Angeles's touchingly vulnerable Butterfly, sketched as much by purity of vocal...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1991

Goehr Orchestral and Vocal Works

In July I had the pleasure of welcoming back to the catalogue Unicorn-Kanchana's recordings of Goehr's Metamorphosis/Dance and Romanza for...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1991

Britten Spring Symphony; Walton Concerto for Viola andOrchestra

This is one of the most valuable as well as one of the most unexpected discs in the Revelation series,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1997

Nielsen Complete Symphonies

Had Elgar not made records, we would have cherished Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli as the torch-bearers of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1995

Weber Lieder

''In my opinion the first and most sacred duty of a song-writer is to observe the maximum of fidelity to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1993

Bach Cello Suites Nos 1, 2 and 6

Bach’s two great series of solo instrumental works‚ the Cello Suites and the Sonatas and Partitas for violin‚ continue to...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

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