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Chopin; Mussorgsky; Scriabin - Vocal Works

One of the very few genuine contraltos among today’s leading singers, Podle´s sounds here much more truly in her element...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2004

Wagner The Ring - An orchestral adventure

To encapsulate the Ring orchestrally in 67 minutes is an ambitious undertaking. But there is an obvious market for Wagner...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1993

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6

Mariss Jansons crowns his magnetically compelling Tchaikovsky series with an account of the last and deepest of the sumphonies which...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1987

Elgar Nursery Suite, Serenade, Dream Children and other works

An appealing programme on paper, but something of a disappointment in practice. In the hands of a towering Elgarian like...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2001

Chopin Waltzes; Impromptus

This invaluable issue of recordings dating from 1953‑57 does yet more to Rubinstein’s status as the greatest of all Chopin...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2011

Goldmark Orchestral Music

Goldmark's second Symphony is a work of his maturity (he was in his late fifties when he wrote it, in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1987

Deutsche Kantaten - before Bach

All roads lead to Bach. This widely held view of German 17th-century vocal music has its roots in conventional Bachian...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2000

Handel Water Music

This documentary’s hypothesis for where, how and why Handel performed his famous orchestral suites on the Thames makes for enjoyable...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2006

Schumann Piano Trios

Three years ago, when giving us Schumann's first 'official' Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 63 (reviewed in 3/92), the...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1995

Bravo Bergonzi! Bergonzi Sings Verdi

Never possessing the charisma of his near-contemporaries del Monaco, di Stefano and Corelli, Bergonzi created his notable career as a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1997

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