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Gubaidulina Orchestral Works

Composed in 1986, Gubaidulina's Symphony was introduced to British audiences by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and the BBC Symphony Orchestra; and it...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Sullivan Patience; Princess Ida

Compact Disc lengths and technical restoration processes have taken much of the pain out of listening to recordings such as...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1997

Telemann Organ Works

There are areas of Telemann's creativity which are, perhaps, worthier of accommodation in a three-CD album than his miscellaneous pieces...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1989

Beethoven Piano Sonata No 14 in C Sharp minor; 32 Variations in C minor

How hard it is to define true greatness in performance? The problem arose as I listened, enthralled, to BBC Legend’s...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2005

Poulenc: Sacred Choral Works

Biased towards their own music as the French are, it is strange that in recordings of so characteristically Gallic a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1988

David Oistrakh Recital

This recording from 1966 was made in France and brings marvellously passionate yet subtle performances of two French masterpieces that...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1988

Prokofiev Complete Violin Works

This is an area of the violin repertory that has been exceptionally lucky on disc, and if neither of these...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Schumann Cello Concerto etc

In 1985 Mischa Maisky teamed up with Bernstein in the Schumann Cello Concerto. The result was a big-scale reading which...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

“This is the end!…From outside, floating over the danger zone, it must be magnificent drama, like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 9/11…No greater...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/2007

(The) Restoration and Georgian Anthem

Drawn from selected volumes of indigenous anthems recorded at various times from 1990 to the early millennium, this significant body...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2007

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