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Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol 1

In embarking on a Mozart concerto cycle, Jeremy Menuhin is pitting himself against the likes of Brendel, Uchida (both Philips),...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2006

Mahler Symphony No. 7

Rafael Kubelík’s 1970 Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony‚ made with this same orchestra in this same hall‚ was...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Villa-Lobos Piano Works, Vol 2

The first and outstand­ing volume of Sonia Rubinsky’s cycle of Villa­Lobos’s piano music was issued in 1999 (7/99). But the...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer

This is undoubtedly the most successful modern recording of this work. For once virtually no excuses or reservations have to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1986

To Music Baillie & Ferrier 1941-6

It was on the tip of the tongue to refer to Dame Isobel and Dame Kathleen, but of course Ferrier...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Dufay: Sacred Choral Works

My enjoyment of this recording increased still further as I listened this time to the CD—I had reviewed the LP...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1987

Shchedrin Preludes

Murray McLachlan's latest Russian odyssey reveals what an earlier incomplete Olympia release with the composer as pianist had only hinted...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Rameau Complete Cantatas

Rameau’s delightful chamber cantatas – of which there are seven – have not hitherto received quite the attention they deserve....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1999

Verdi Overtures and Ballet Works

In the mid-1950s when all these recordings were made, Charles Mackerras was regularly brought in to conduct sessions with the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2004

Wagner (Das) Rheingold

We still don’t have a really good DVD Ring. Daniel Barenboim’s classic version languishes unreleased, better cast and conducted than...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 5/2005

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