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Bruch String Quartets
Although we are used to having Bruch's G minor and Mendelssohn's E minor Violin Concertos coupled on a single disc,...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures
Having recently praised the Disky series of Royal Classics two-CD conductor portraits (4/00), I also welcome these new so-called Unesco...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2000
Menuhin 75th Birthday Edition
In a very short article entitled ''Performing Greatness'' included at the end of the recently published The Keller Column (Lengnick;...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1991
Joshua Bell - Voice of the Violin
Anna Netrebko | Frederic Chiu | Joshua Bell | Michael Stern | St Luke's Orchestra
Joshua Bell, possessor of one of the loveliest violin timbres of our time, here follows up his “Romance of the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2006
Fritz Reiner conducts Orchestral Works
Leaving the best until last, IMG and EMI bow out of their Great Conductors of the 20th Century project with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2004
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Centenary
Centenary tributes such as this are all well and good, but doesn't a great recording like Constantin Silvestri's 1967 In...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
100 Years of the Concertgebouw
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Jo Vincent | Willem Mengelberg
In a conversation with the French musician and film-maker, Bruno Monsaingeon, in 1976, Glenn Gould remarked: ''Personally, I think that,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1989
We Want the Light
UK readers may have caught the documentary portion of this DVD on TV. Christopher Nupen certainly takes in some wonderful...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2005
Great Conductors of the 20th Century – Charles Munch
The intention of these ‘Great Conductors’ sets – to include a ‘representative and comprehensive variety of material’ – is admirable,...
Reviewed by jswain in issue: 9/2003
Richard Crooks - Songs and Ballads
The Delos issue is of the utmost importance. The Crooks family donated their collection of Richard Crooks to the Stanford...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1998
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