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Russian Orchestral Works

Gliere's ballet suite and Knipper's symphony might not appear to have much in common but their coupling is an inspiration...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Firsova (The) Mandelstam Cantatas

Elena Firsova declares her settings of Osip Mandelstam to be her most important works, and this selection of three of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2005

Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions

On this record Earl Wild celebrates his eightieth birthday in inimitable style. Letting down his snow white hair he thunders...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1995

Vasks String Quartets

This first recording of the three Peteris Vasks quartets opens with the most recent and best. Written in 1995, the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Mass for the End of Time

For their tenth recording and their first of the new millennium, Anonymous 4 have decided to go apocalyptic. Not that...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 11/2000

Moniuszko: Songs

''The classic master of Polish song'' is how Moniuszko has been desribed by Gerald Abraham (in what is itself a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1985

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Let me begin by looking on the positive side of things. Talvela is a gloriously rotund, relishing Osmin, brandishing his...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1987

Mendelssohn Piano Works

One of the main reasons for the success of this disc is that instead of doggedly ploughing his way through...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2009

Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht; R. Strauss Metamorphosen

There is strong competition for these performances on other CDs. Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic have recorded both works magnificently...

Reviewed in issue 4/1989

Monteverdi Vespers

There is obviously a certain risk involved in issuing a BBC broadcast of 1970: by today’s yardstick, many of the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 1/1997

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