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Marais Pièces de Viole

With this release, Jean-Louis Charbonnier completes Marais’s third book of Pièces de viole. He has now recorded 13 Marais CDs...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 6/2006

Romantic Echoes

Admirers of the Strauss Violin Sonata will want to have Jascha Heifetz's 1934 recording with Arpad Sandor; no one else,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/1999

Bizet Carmen

Both these performances are greatly preferable to Karajan's DG recording, and choice between them is hard. If, a little to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1985

Holst Planets; Vaughan Williams Fantasias

I’d expected great things of Slatkin’s Planets when it first appeared at the tail­end of 1997‚ but came away underwhelmed;...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2002

Dowland Second Booke of Songs

This recording drew glowing praise from DF when it first appeared in 1977 as part of L'Oiseau-Lyre Florilegium's complete Dowland...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1991

Grieg and Sibelius: Orchestral works

Marriner recorded the Holberg Suite with the Academy at the beginning of the seventies for Argo (ZRG670, 11/70) in a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986

Melcer/Paderewski Piano Concertos

Subtitled ''Two Leschetizky Pupils'' this dazzling coupling will be snapped up by all lovers of the romantic piano concerto at...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1994

Berlioz Orchestral Works

Levine's performance of the Symphonie fantastique is in some respects a curious one. Its virtues are not inconsiderable. The playing...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1992

Steiner (The) Adventures of Mark Twain

Steiner’s flair for weaving traditional melodies and snatches of period songs onto the larger canvas of his own music, as...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 13/2004

The Art of Hans Hotter

It has always seemed extraordinary that a singer who was so renowned as an overwhelmingly powerful Wotan was able to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1988

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