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Mussorgsky Songs, Volume 1

This is a superlative disc, sure to be one of my choices for 1995. Nobody in my experience, unless it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1995

Vaughan Williams Choral Works

Richard Hickox and his excellent LSO forces continue to go from strength to strength. Here's a generous and inspiring coupling...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1993

Mahler Symphony No 1

Christoph Eschenbach’s Mahler may be unfamiliar to record collectors. His approach is fundamentally objective, confident, sharp-edged, and analytical, and yet...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Janácek Sonata 1.X.1905

Quite a few pianists have now recorded a Janácek recital similar in content to this one, notably Rudolf Firkusny and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2010

Schubert & Mozart Piano Quintets

There is an agreeable feeling of intimate music-making about these performances, particularly in each work's Andante the stillness with which...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1989

Schippers conducts Barber etc

This collection is intended more as a memorial to the remarkable gifts of Thomas Schippers (1930-77) than as an anomalously...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1997

Rutter – Music for Christmas

The way things look at present‚ the world will need every bit of good cheer it can get this Christmas‚...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Elgar Symphony No 2; In the South

This is the first recording of an Elgar symphony on surround-sound SACD and very impressive it is, bringing out the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2005

Vasa Príhoda plays Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski and Paganini

The extreme pleasure afforded by the playing of Vasa Prihoda (1900-60) is here compromised by the kind of primitive sound...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

McCabe Symphony No 2; (The) Chagall WIndows; Notturni ed Alba

Two of the three substantial works on this very welcome British Composers offering from EMI (namely The Chagall Windows and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1999

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