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Martinu Concertos

If you wanted to show how broad Martinu's artistic scope was, you couldn't pick a better coupling than the Double...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991

Telemann Chamber Works

This anthology of chamber music by Telemann includes five works from one of his most interesting publications, the Essercizii musici...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1991

Verdi Il Trovatore

I grew up with the highlights record of this set and so its every inflexion is engraved in my memory...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1987

Placido Domingo – Live in Prague

In his speech (in English) near the end of the concert, Domingo tells us that though this was not his...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Scriabin Complete Piano Sonatas

Scriabin was an ambitious composer. A romantic alchemist, he saw his music as a transmuting agent. Through its influence pain...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1996

Arensky/Rimsky-Korsakov Chamber Works

With characteristic enterprise, the Nash Ensemble have disinterred two Russian chamber works that can be known to very few Western...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1985

B.Herrmann The Devil and Daniel Webster

The popular 20-minute suite from The Devil and Daniel Webster was assembled shortly after the film's score won its Oscar...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 6/1994

Bach Goldberg Variations

Bach’s Goldberg Variations have been arranged for everything from string orchestra to accordion with varying degrees of success – but...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 3/2009

Salonen LA Variations

Esa­Pekka Salonen once told me in a private conversation that he considered composition and conducting to be essentially ‘two sides...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Verdi Falstaff

By all accounts the performances in May this year at the Barbican were among the most enjoyable of their kind...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2004

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