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Handel and Haydn Society Chorus | Harry Christophers
Founded in 1815, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society Chorus is the oldest still-extant performing arts organisation in America. For their...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016
Recital by Kathleen Battle
James Levine | Kathleen Battle
This recording offers the very quintessence of Kathleen Battle: a winsome, childlike readiness of timbre and response, in a light,...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1986
Mikhail Pletnev plays the Rachmaninov Piano
Gimmickry? Not a bit of it. This is a genuinely illuminating and thought-provoking issue. More than that, it’s immensely enjoyable....
Reviewed in issue 3/1999
Alexander Gavrylyuk - Live in Recital
Alexander Gavrylyuk is a young Russian pianist whose recital at the Miami Piano Festival last year must have sent his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006
Berg; Mahler; Schoenberg Lieder
Geoffrey Parsons | Thomas Hampson
The American baritone Thomas Hampson is turning out a veritable production line of recordings at the moment; but, with his...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1990
Moiseiwitsch - Rachmaninov Recordings (1937-48)
Childhood memories of concerts are often hazy, but I have a clear recollection of Moiseiwitsch in recital at the Assembly...
Reviewed in issue 2/1988
Brahms/Schumann Violin Concertos
Ever since Nigel Kennedy added the Schubert Rondo in A to the regular Bruch/Mendelssohn coupling, it has come to seem...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1994
Iona Brown & The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Iona Brown | Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Concert performances and music-making of exceptional accuracy, delicacy, aerial grace and vivacity (tempos all chosen so that the music can...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999
Harmonie & Turcherie
Alfredo Bernardini | Ensemble Zefiro
The Habsburg Empire defeated the Ottoman Empire following the Siege of Vienna in 1683, ending the centuries of Muslim incursions...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016
RACHMANINOV Solo Piano Recordings Vol 3
For many, Rachmaninov was the greatest of all pianists, and here in Ward Marston’s magnificent transfers he is at last...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2013
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