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MOZART Così fan tutte

Così fan tutte is the most balanced and probing of all Mozart’s operas, formally faultless, musically inspired from start to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

BARTÓK Concertos for Piano and Orchestra

Much as one would like to tout the new as the best, there are some older recordings where a very...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/1995

Mussorgsky: Orchestral & Vocal Works

Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition has so much established itself as the standard version (even tending to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/1987

CHOPIN Mazurkas

Vladimir Ashkenazy made his integral set of the Mazurkas over a decade. He has always played outstandingly. He does so...

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BELLINI La Sonnambula die Nachtwandlerin

By one of those coincidences surely resulting from a conference held to avoid such clashes, another modern version of Bellini’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2014

RACHMANINOV Songs

It is worth taking note of the people to whom Rachmaninov dedicated his songs. There are friends and relatives; there...

Reviewed in issue 05/2014

HAYDN Cello Concertos Nos 1 and 2 - Rostropovich

This deserves a place on any collector’s shelf. With Rostropovich directing from the bow, the ASMF sounds a little less...

Reviewed in issue 11/88

Bartok Violin Concertos

Among the many ‘if only…’ fantasies that marry a particular work to a particular artist is Jascha Heifetz performing Bartók’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/11

JL ADAMS Four Thousand Holes. ...and bells remembered...

From the label, based in Venice, California, that has recently produced such classics as Christopher Roberts’s Trios for Deep Voices...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2011

Martha Argerich Début Recital

Here, on this richly filled CD, is a positive cornucopia of musical genius. Martha Argerich's 1961 disc remains among the...

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