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Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

An excellent and often urgent Fifth, the opening forceful but unforced, pressing forwards rather in the manner of the Kleibers....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2006

Martinu Symphonies

When these performances first appeared there was no rival version of the Third Symphony and only two of the Fourth....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1995

The Three Tenors 1994

''They're very good'', said my next door neighbour, who had just seen The Three Tenors on television. He explained that...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Brana Record Collection, Volume 1

Felicja Blumental was born in Warsaw in 1908 and died in Tel Aviv in 1991. Although immersed in the standard...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2008

Boccherini String Quartets, Op 32 Nos 3–6

Boccherini was a little less indulgent in his string quartets than in his string quintets‚ which are more numerous (and...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Puccini Manon Lescaut; Verdi (Il) Trovatore

In 1956 an official at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm started to make tape-recordings of performances on stage and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2003

Boleros

This‚ to be sure‚ is crossover – geographically as well as musically. Operatic tenor José Cura and Latin­American arranger Jorge...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Philidor Suites for Flute and Basso Continuo

Pierre Danican Philidor is a relative rarity in the current CD catalogues, although, as a member of one of the...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 4/2000

Bacewicz Violin Concertos Vol 2

Composed between 1945 and 1954, these three concertos adopt the same formal scheme as the First Concerto on the previous...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2011

Schumann Piano Concerto etc

Helene Grimaud was 19 when her coupling of Schumann’s Kreisleriana and Brahms’s F sharp minor Sonata prompted me to hail...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1996

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