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Mozart Don Giovanni

It’s an experiment I have not tried, but I fancy that if one were to play this Furtwängler Salzburg performance...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2005

Salieri Overtures and Incidental Music

Poor Antonio Salieri (1750-1825). Once he was a hugely influential musical figure in Vienna, director of Italian Opera at the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2010

Handel Water Music

In what order (and where) the three Water Music suites were played, what movements they contained (and what their titles...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1986

Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol. 1

Edwin Fischer, writing in 1929, said that it was Busoni and Richard Strauss who “first proclaimed to our generation the...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1998

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas

Yefim Bronfman follows his impressive earlier volumes of Prokofiev piano sonatas (Nos. 7 and 8 – 2/89 and Nos. 1,...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1996

Janácek Jenufa

It is a pleasure to be able to welcome the first of Decca's Janacek opera cycle under Sir Charles Mackerras...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1985

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

In its LP format, Chandos accommodated the densely-written Second Symphony on one side, and although the recording had no lack...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1985

Stevenson, R Passacaglia on DSCH

Just the one work here – almost certainly the longest single-movement work for the piano. This is the first recording,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2008

Dvorák Serenades, Opp 22 and 44

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe in its three years of existence has rightly won glowing opinions for some outstanding concerts...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985

Four Concertos for Violins and Recorders

This is the second of two recitals by Richard Harvey which have been released by ASV on LP. The first...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1985

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