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Review of Orff Carmina burana

Orff Carmina burana

Arleen Augér | John van Kesteren | Jonathan Summers | Philharmonia Chorus | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti

EMI

Muti's 1980 LP recording of Carmina burana was widely used as a hi-fi demonstration record when it first appeared; remarkable...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Review of Gibbons Choral and Organ Music

Gibbons Choral and Organ Music

Jeremy Summerly | Laurence Cummings | Oxford Camerata

Naxos

The Oxford Camerata continue their popular series of recordings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English music with this representative selection of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/1996

Review of Shostakovich Symphony No 11

Shostakovich Symphony No 11

Mstislav Rostropovich | Washington National Symphony Orchestra

Teldec (Warner Classics)

To dismiss a recording of a 65-minute symphony on the basis of one note would not seem very intelligent. But...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Review of Bach Sonata No 1 BWV1001; Partita No 1 BWV 1002; Stravinsky Suite Italienne

Bach Sonata No 1 BWV1001; Partita No 1 BWV 1002; Stravinsky Suite Italienne

Leonidas Kavakos | Péter Nagy

ECM New Series

How does one parse music that flows in an endless stream of notes with nary a pause for a breath?...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 5/2005

Review of Stokowski Spectacular

Stokowski Spectacular

Leopold Stokowski | National Philharmonic Orchestra | Sidney Sax

Pye Nixa

Edward Greenfield gave this issue something of a rave review when it first appeared in LP format. He had reservations...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Review of Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet

Cleveland Orchestra | Lorin Maazel

Decca

It was George Szell who made the Cleveland Orchestra into a highly responsive virtuoso body, and when he died in...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Review of Wolf Italian Songbook

Wolf Italian Songbook

Christoph Prégardien | Hilko Dumno | Julia Kleiter

Challenge Classics

One of the wonders of the age was the full house which invariably assembled at London’s Festival Hall when the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2011

Review of Lassus Cantiones Sacrae

Lassus Cantiones Sacrae

Ghent Collegium Vocale | Philippe Herreweghe

Harmonia Mundi

Philippe Herreweghe has few peers as a Lassus specialist: he is responsible for one of the finest Lassus recordings, a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2009

Review of Haydn Symphonies Nos 102 & 104

Haydn Symphonies Nos 102 & 104

English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate

EMI

Yet another outstanding coupling of late Haydn symphonies given extremely good sound. Only in January was I greatly enjoying Solti's...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1987

Review of Brahms; Demopoulos; Mussorgsky Piano Works

Brahms; Demopoulos; Mussorgsky Piano Works

Panayiotis Demopoulos

Dunelm

Panayiotis Demopoulos is a young Greek composer-pianist who shows himself in this sharply contrasted recital to be an exceptionally sensitive...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006

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