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Toscanini conducts Tchaikovsky

Anyone who was lucky enough to attend Carnegie Hall on April 19th, 1941 will have heard one of the most...

Reviewed in issue 4/1997

Ginastera; Ponce; Villa-Lobos Guitar Works

In my review of Eduardo Fernandez's recording of the Folia-based work on Decca I noted the strangeness of its status...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1992

Biber Mystery Sonatas

Biber’s 15 Mystery Sonatas, sometimes called the Rosary Sonatas because each piece is inspired by a section of the Catholic...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1997

Janacek Kata Kabanova

This is a transfer to DVD of a 1988 Virgin VHS. It houses an entirely recommendable staging by Lehnhoff for...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Schütz Magnificat d'Uppsala, SWV468

The French label K617 is evidently not aiming much at the English-speaking market: it took me a while to track...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2007

Virtuoso Violin

Tasmin Little and her accompanist Piers Lane begin this most generous recital disc (comprising 72 minutes of music) in commanding...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1992

Kagel Exotica; Tactil

Mauricio Kagel (b. 1931) is a longstanding musical maverick. An Argentinian for many years resident in Germany, he is well...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1994

Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival 2008

Festival performances have a more extreme tendency than subscription concerts either to go for broke in a sympathetic environment or...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2009

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.22

There is nothing very much in the first dozen tracks here to hold the imagination as song or interpretation with...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1995

(The) Romantic Flute

The surprise here is the Suite by Widor, a wonderful “quiz” piece to try out on one’s friends. It sounds...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007

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