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Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

A fastidious ear will find things to complain about in the Solti version on Decca, but the shortcomingsof this Bolshoi...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Sir Henry Wood conducts Vaughan Williams

Wood left a large number of recordings, but all too often conducted trivial fare in the studios, and his true...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Tchaikovsky for 4 Hands

Arrangements such as Taneyev’s of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony enabled amateur musicians to experience a work in the home, something we...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/2003

Virtuoso French Organ Music

This was an obvious candidate for the CD catalogue. The true French flavour which appealed to me so much on...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Kurtág Music for Strings

This is the first disc to be devoted exclusively to Kurtag’s music for string quartet. On musical grounds alone it...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1996

Let Voices Resound - Songs from Piae Cantiones (1582)

This is the second collection from Naxos to focus on the Piae Cantiones of 1582. In contrast to the Retrover...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1999

Falla Vocal Works

The accompanying notes imply that this is a rare opportunity to hear the original 1915 version of El amor brujo....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1993

Purcell Songs of Welcome & Farewell

Of the many new recordings of sundry songs to have appeared in Purcell festivities of recent months, this has the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Strauss, R Macbeth; Alpine Symphony

The theatrical certainties of Strauss’s early but cleverly revised psychodrama Macbeth appear to suit Janowski and his Pittsburgh players rather...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2009

Vivaldi Vocal and Instrumental Works

This has always struck my Gramophone colleagues and myself as a curious piece of casting, since almost without question Vivaldi...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1985

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