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An Organ for All Occasions

The youthful freshness of Keith John's playing, the clarity and strange beauty of the highly individual organ are all revealed...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Puccini Manon Lescaut

The 1980 reissue of this classic Callas set of 1959 (RLS737, 4/80—nla) brought a very commendable opening out of what...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1986

Cantiques de l'Orient

Soeur Marie Keyrouz belongs to a rare breed of musicians: a fully trained female cantor of talent, she has already...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1996

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

These two symphonies make an attractive and economical coupling and were most successfully recorded way back in the mid-1950s on...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1983

Haydn; Mozart; Beethoven Sonatas

Textural transparency, expressive economy, creative inspiration, high humour and strategically placed silences characterise these three Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart sonatas,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2008

Britten; Howells; Vaughan Williams Violin Sonatas

Howells’s First Sonata (1917-19) dates from a period when the British violin sonata was enjoying perhaps its greatest apogee with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 13/2008

Sibelius (The) Origin of Fire

Of the many Sibelius works inspired by the Kalevala (the Finnish national epic poem), The Origin of Fire remains one...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2007

Coates conducts Wagner, Weber & Mendelssohn

Albert Coates has happily regained something of his lost reputation in recent years, and this issue should do more to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1995

Schubert Orchestral works

An Unfinished of coherence and integrity (first movement repeat observed) that eschews the dynamic extremes of, say, Kleiber and Bernstein...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1991

Carlo Tagliabue (1898-1978)

Just over 40 years of age in 1939, Tagliabue was one of those singers whose careers were denied their fulfilment...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

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