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Rameau Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts

One fascinating thing about good music is its robustness and, in particular, its adaptability, making it susceptible to a range...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 8/2003

Karlowicz Symphonic Poems, Vol 2

The story is much the same as with the first volume of Naxos’s Karowicz symphonic poems. Although the orchestra is...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2009

James Galway conducts Handel

I can warmly recommend this collection of Handel's most popular orchestral music, given a 'popular' yet nicely expressive treatment with...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Prokofiev Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 (rev version)

I must declare my colours and say immediately that Prokofiev's Fourth Symphony is not a piece I would take to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1985

Van Cliburn plays Mozart, Debussy & Barber

Along with Horowitz's famous interpretation (RCA (CD) GD60377—to be reviewed later), Van Cliburn's is one that makes every bar of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1991

Talbot (The) Path of Miracles

Joby Talbot was in the band that provided music for that divine comedy Father Ted. After such beatification by association,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2006

Bruckner Symphony No. 7

Lopez-Cobos is a not inexperienced Brucknerian and on the evidence of this record the Cincinnati Symphony is not without competence,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1990

Sonata

There was a time when guitar programmes looked more like an hors-d’oeuvre trolley than a full meal; some still do...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1996

Schumann/Franck Orchestral Works

It's difficult to find adjectives other than the well worn 'craggy' and 'rough hewn' to describe the cut of Klemperer's...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1992

Shostakovich Symphony 11

While there are some genuinely 'historic' performances in this batch of Shostakovich symphonies, the documentation provided—a curious mix of Soviet-style...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

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