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Arcadi Volodos at Carnegie Hall

Taken live from his 1998 Carnegie Hall debut recital, Sony’s second Arcadi Volodos recital confirms a daunting legend. At 26...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1999

Cristina Gallardo-Domas - Bel Sogno

This is the kind of issue that makes reviewing worthwhile. Gallardo­Domâs‚ in a wide­ranging recital‚ proves that she need not...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Mozart Symphony No 35; Sibelius (The) Tempest - excs

A fascinating disc. Older collectors may know of the famous Beecham 78s of Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances made at the Leeds...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2006

Rautavaara Manhattan Trilogy; Symphony No 3

Rautavaara studied at the Juilliard School in 1955-56 and Manhattan Trilogy (2004) was commissioned to celebrate its centennial. In recalling...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2008

Bainton; Boughton Orchestral Tone Poems

Rutland Boughton (1879-1960) and Edgar Bainton (1880‑1956) became firm friends while students at the Royal College of Music. They regularly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2011

Bernstein A White House Cantata

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the lost Bernstein musical of the mid-1970s. Conceptually flawed and burdened with frequently embarrassing lyrics by...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2000

English Song Series, Vol. 2 - Walton

Walton was not the most prolific of composers, but he contributed a masterpiece to practically every genre in which he...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Leoncavallo Pagliacci

The self-conscious 1970s and ’80s, afraid of excess or sentiment, were no golden age for performances of Leoncavallo’s deceptively rich...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 7/2008

Hahn Ciboulette

That Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette is styled an operette gives little idea of its style. In 1923, the year of its...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1990

Debussy Piano Works

It is difficult to believe that Arrau was already in his late seventies when making these recordings. 'Spellbinding' is the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1992

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