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Berlioz Orchestral Works

Jansons opens at a very slow tempo indeed, as if wishing to draw the very most out of Berlioz's love-song....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1992

Bartók Music for Violin and Piano, Volume 3

An interesting case of ‘before and after’, with the early E minor Sonata representing Bartok in ‘czardas’ mode (sample the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Czech String Quartets

The main interpretative problem in the first movement of the American Quartet seems to be, what did Dvorak mean when...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1990

Busoni/Schoenberg/Weill Orchestral Works

Whatever it says in the booklet, three out of four of these recordings derive from the ‘new music’ series made...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Wagner Die Walküre

Bernard Haitink's Wagner is no longer an unknown quantity: in 1988 alone he has conducted both Parsifal and Das Rheingold...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1988

Durosoir Works for Violin and Piano

Lucien Durosoir (1878-1920) began his musical life as a concert violinist but his career was interrupted – and indeed ruined...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2007

Bizet Carmen & L'ArlésienneSuites

There's plenty of elan in this playing. Yan Pascal Tortelier is concerned to bring out the swagger in much of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1990

Butterworth Symphony No 1; Gipps Symphony No 2

The recent death of Ruth Gipps robbed British musical life of one of its most industrious and beloved figures. Born...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1999

Mendelssohn Overtures

Flor's recording of the complete A Midsummer Night's Dream music, made in Bamberg, was given a highly enthusiastic review by...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Puccini Tosca

Solti's is an exceptionally colourful and robust reading of Puccini's great melodrama, recorded with all the vividness of modern digital...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1986

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