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Nellie Melba – Complete Gramophone Recordings, Vol 1

This is very good news. Melba’s recordings for American Victor came out in a complete edition on Romophone, also with...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003

Shostakovich Symphony 5

There is less ambience in the Philips recording, less perspective in the orchestral sound-picture, less sense of the specific size...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Wieniawski/Sarasate Works for Violin and Orchestra

The two Wieniawski violin concertos have been the province of Itzhak Perlman until now, but Gil Shaham, who has already...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1991

Gershwin American in Paris/Porgy & Bess Fantasy

The sleeve describes this as the ''original version for two pianos'' of An American in Paris, and, as Gershwin always...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Dukas Complete Piano Works

Apart from Debussy and Ravel, 20th-century French piano repertoire is not very familiar to most of us. Yet Dukas’s Piano...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2008

Schumann Fantasie; Kreisleriana

Hideyo Harada is a prize-winning pianist trained in Japan, Germany and Russia who offers a Schumann recital showing the composer...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2010

800 Sinfonico Italiano

It makes an apt, if rather ungenerous, coupling having the long-buried pieces by Ponchielli (Puccini’s teacher) and Catalani (his contemporary...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998

Schubert Sonatas for Piano & Violin

These sonatas date from 1816-17 and the choice of instruments is precisely appropriate: Midori Seiler plays a Viennese violin made...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2006

Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 & 9

To begin a complete cycle with Mahler’s Alpha and Omega is presumably deliberate, a means of establishing symphonic continuities and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2003

Boulanger Psalm 24; Pie Jesi; Psalm du fond. Fauré Requiem

The appearance within less than six months of three recordings of the same works is already something of note: still...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1999

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