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Mussorgsky Complete Songs, Volume 3

Once again Leiferkus proves an exemplary interpreter of Mussorgsky. His imagination and intelligence illumine from within everything he sings. He...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1996

Berlioz Requiem Op 5 'Grande Messe des Morts'

Colin Davis’s recording of the Grande Messe des morts was made in Westminster Cathedral in 1969 as part of the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2008

Verdi Il Trovatore

It is strange of Romophone to release this 1930, pioneering set of Trovatore and then employ Michael Scott to pour...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1998

Dvorák Legends

Even Dvorak's biographer and critic John Clapham does not recommend listening to all the Legends at a sitting, but programming...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1989

Wilhelm Kempff - Complete 1950s solo recordings

DG follow their earlier five-disc set of Kempff’s complete 1950s concerto recordings with a further five-CD set of his Brahms and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2003

Rachmaninov - Rare Rachmaninov

Only two actual songs are included here, a pair of sacred settings dating from 1916 (very late in Rachmaninov’s life...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2009

Schulhoff Ogelala etc.

The Schulhoff boom continues with this curate’s egg of a programme – a third recording of music from the ballet,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Mojca Erdmann - Mostly Mozart

Mojca Erdmann has sung several roles on stage, including Mozart’s Blonde and Zerlina and Strauss’s Sophie. She can be seen...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2011

Chopin Piano Concertos

It was an eminently sensible decision to couple Zimerman's previously separate Chopin concertos on a single CD. The Ax/Ormandy/RCA disc...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986

Sibelius Luonnatar; Orchestral Songs

Sibelius wrote his songs originally for voice and piano and in that form they are most often recorded. Some he...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2006

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