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Bach Keyboard Works

The two-disc set from which these concertos are taken comprised all seven and all three are adaptations from known works;...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1992

Bruckner Symphony No 1; Hindemith Pittsburgh Symphony

Whatever has Hindemith’s Pittsburgh Symphony (1958) – the sixth and last he wrote – done to deserve such wretched treatment...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Confrey Piano Rolls

Musicologist Artis Wodehouse follows up her splendid Yamaha Disclavier realisations of piano roll recordings by George Gershwin and Jelly Roll...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2003

Verdi Attila

Lamberto Gardelli's two readings of Attila, for Hungaroton/Conifer and Philips respectively, have such strongly contrasted basses in the title-role that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1990

Vaughan Williams Film Music, Volume 2

Directed by Michael Powell and written by Emeric Pressburger and Rodney Ackland, 49th Parallel (1941) was the Ministry of Information’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2004

Mendelssohn Symphonies

The direct comparison here is between Abbado (DG) and Norrington, who couple the Italian and Scottish Symphonies; Mackerras (Virgin Classics)...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1990

Granados: Piano Works

So much praise has, quite rightly, been lavished on Larrocha's previous recording of Goyescas (in Decca's West Hampstead studios)—one of...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1991

Shostakovich/Barshai Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 - 5

Over several decades, many listeners must first have encountered Shostakovich’s string quartets through Rudolf Barshai’s arrangements. As the one-time viola-player...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/2006

Tippett King Priam

Many listeners – even or especially those who had been beguiled by The Midsummer Marriage – could once take refuge...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 3/2008

Last Night of the Proms

I was fortunate that in my youth, during the war years, one could get a season ticket for the Proms...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1997

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