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Vivaldi Vespro per la Vergine

The latest attempt to collect miscellaneous church compositions by Vivaldi into a Vespers service features both of the psalm-settings rediscovered...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2009

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1; Francesca da Rimini etc

It seems astonishing that when John Ogdon – joint winner with Ashkenazy of the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow – came...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2001

Clemens Kraus Conducts

Apart from the composer himself, there has in general been no more idiomatic interpreter of Richard Strauss's scores than his...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1993

Verdi Macbeth

Here is yet another challenging and well­executed staging from the Zurich Opera‚ this one dating from last year. David Pountney‚...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Ruders Orchestral Works

Imagine, if you can, a music with the visceral impact of a Xenakis, the celebratory energy of a Tippett and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Stravinsky Symphonies

You have to admire Boulez's Stravinsky for its purity. Here is a conductor who places his tempos with a geometrical...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 4/2000

Rachmaninov Piano Works

There is superb playing here, excellently recorded and fully confirming the impression made by Gavrilov's London performances of Rachmaninov. One's...

Reviewed in issue 1/1985

Joan Sutherland - Prima Donna Assoluta

There have been several Sutherland anthologies recently, among them a number that could reasonably take precedence of this. Even so...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Schumann Lieder Recital

This is a deeply thoughtful and satisfying recital. The combination of the Op. 39 Liederkreis with not only the Maria...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1987

Léon Goossens plays Bach, Handel & Mozart

This record comes a year after the centenary of the birth of Leon Goossens, but is timely enough in celebration...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1998

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