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Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Recorded under live conditions but without an audience in St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, this Scheherazade is the most red-blooded, exciting...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2002

Berlioz Te Deum

This performance was recorded live in St John the Divine in New York City, which claims to be the largest...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1997

Stephan (Die) ersten Menschen

Rudi Stephan was killed on the First World War’s Eastern Front when he was 28, and just finding his feet...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 8/2006

Lieberson, P Neruda Songs

Not so long ago, “lush” and “romantic” were words that would never figure in a description of Peter Lieberson’s music....

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 5/2007

C.P.E. Bach: Sonatinas

Do not be taken in by the word 'sonatina', by which C. P. E. Bach identified some 12 such works...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1987

Boulez Domaines

This is the second reissue (the first was in 1979) ofa lively performance of one of Boulez's most approachable works....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1985

Vivaldi (L') Amore per Elvira

“L’Amore per Elvira” is the title La Serenissima have given this disc, referring to the fact that the three chamber...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2007

Rütti Requiem

The music of Swiss composer Carl Rütti seems to have gained considerable ground in the repertoires of British and American...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2009

Berkeley, L String Quartet No 2; Berkeley, M Abstract Mirror; Magnetic Field

We have waited 65 years for a recording of Lennox Berkeley’s Second String Quartet so it’s particularly welcome in this...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2006

Grieg: Orchestral Works

The Peer Gynt suites recieve the largest billing on this disc, but although there's nothing exactly wrong with Leppard's conducting...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

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