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La Guitarra Romantica

Though Bream's successful explorations and expansions of the repertory have been more wide-ranging than those of any other guitarist of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1992

Kancheli Trauerfarbenes Land

... a la Duduki (a ‘duduki’ is a Georgian folk-reed instrument) opens to a striking neo-baroque toccata, outspoken music, bright...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Furtwängler conducts Bach & Beethoven

Furtwangler’s August 1950 Salzburg Festival recreation of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto is a thing of extraordinary beauty, even though it...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2001

Davis, C Cyrano

Own labels are the order of the day in the CD world and Carl Davis’s is one of the more...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/2010

Monteverdi Madrigals, Book 6

Monteverdi's Sixth Book of Madrigals is dominated by the sadness of separation, whether final and irrevocable as when caused by...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1993

Richter The Authorised Recordings: Bach

The Richter Edition comprises 21 discs in nine separate slipcased sets. Although the edition is initially only available in its...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Brahms Concertos

Supraphon's slim-line CD double-pack features an adequately recorded live concert from the 1992 Prague Spring Festival, complete with applause. However,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Bloody Amateurs

This is not so much a CD with an accompanying booklet as the reverse: a hardbound book, disc mounted in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/2003

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle continues with an account of the First Symphony that appreciates both its mischief and its soulfulness. Superbly...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2011

Gidon Kremer/Edition Lockenhaus, Vol. 3

I wonder if any reviewer will be able to resist quoting from Valery Afanassiev's own sleevenote. Not I. After a...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

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