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Liszt Piano Concertos

These were recognized as classic performances virtually from their first appearance over 20 years ago. They are characterized not only...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Vivaldi Dixit Dominus; Galuppi Laetatus sum

Rediscovered last year, Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus is the most substantial of several sacred works copied for the Catholic court at...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2006

Leighton Cello Concerto; Symphony No 3

When Kenneth Leighton died a year ago, Britain lost one of its finest contemporary composers, who never received in his...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades

At last this work seems to be gaining the popularity it deserves with opera and record companies, and, most important,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992

Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

Kees Bakels proves himself an eminently undisruptive no-nonsense guide through the streets of the capital in this, the first instalment...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1994

Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 6

Tackling their huge task of recording the complete Haydn symphonies, Adam Fischer and the Austro-Hungarian orchestra are making a sort...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1995

The Humours of Daryl Runswick

Runswick has for a decade or more been publicly involved with performing, composing and studying contemporary music of many genres...

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 9/1996

Brahms/Dvorák String Quartets

It was only this February that I wrote a glowing review of the Alban Berg Quartet's new recording of Brahms's...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1995

Liszt/Mozart Piano Works

The cello does not have available too many twentieth-century concertos of real thematic memorability and so this BIS coupling is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1996

Mahler Symphony No 9

Mahler is all about weighing and balancing the extremes – heart and intellect, tempo and dynamics, tension and release –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/2011

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