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Gluck Orphée et Eurydice

There is no question where the spotlight falls in this recording. The glorious Italianate tenor of Juan Diego Flórez is...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 6/2010

Franck & Debussy: Cello Sonatas, etc

No one listening here to the start of the first movement of Franck's Sonata could guess that the marking is...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Ireland Piano Works, Vol 1

The pleasures here are many. John Lenehan is a very accomplished performer: not only is his technical address impeccable, but...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1998

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 3 & 6; Stravinsky Violin Concerto

Objections on principle can be put aside. There is no fixed boundary between chamber and full orchestras, and I should...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2009

Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

Most recordings of Bluebeard’s Castle have their pivotal moments. With Péter Eötvös (Hänssler), it’s the soul-scarring cry as Bluebeard, masterfully...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2009

Brahms Chamber Works

To be given the Clarinet Trio as well as the two sonatas is generous measure in itself. So how good...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1993

Mahler Symphony No 6

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first recording of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony may well be the Sixth of first choice, sonically and interpretatively....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2006

Frankel Curse of the Werewolf

This well planned CD is a welcome reminder of a once familiar occurrence when composers switched at the flick of...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 8/2006

In Like Flint/Our Man Flint Original Soundtracks

Two new albums from Varese Sarabande find the mercurial Jerry Goldsmith operating in a particularly droll mode. The first release...

Reviewed by kmulhall in issue: 12/1998

Stepan Rak Dedications - Guitar Works

Stepan Rak is a brilliantly virtuoso guitarist and an ingenious inventor of sounds that one never dreamed could be drawn...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1990

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