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Prokofiev Orchestral & Chamber Works

''Containing no less [sic] than three world premiere recordings'' (I think Conifer mean ''no fewer'') runs the publicity but two...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1991

Claudio Abbado - (The) Silence that follows music - A Portrait

As Promgoers and Edinburgh Festival patrons will attest, Claudio Abbado takes nothing for granted these days, the unforced lucidity of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2003

Lutoslawski Chamber Works

When the Lutoslawski String Quartet last came my way I commented rather tetchily on its ''uncharacteristically diffuse and protracted meanderings''....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1991

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 and 1

By calling Paavo Järvi’s Beethoven Fifth a front-runner, I intend the reference more as a reflection of fast pacing, brilliant...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2009

Adam (La) Filleule des Fées

La filleule des fées was composed by Adam – with a little help from Alfred de Saint­Julien – in 1849....

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

N Tcherepnin Le Pavillon d'Armide

Le Pavillon d'Armide has an honoured place in the history of ballet. It was choreographed by Fokine to a libretto...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995

Elgar Orchestral Works

Sospiri's sighs are deep and inconsolable; the phrasing of the Elegy has a reach and flexibility and range of dynamic...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1994

Vienna State Opera Gala, 2005

Last November the Vienna State Opera celebrated the 50th anniversary of the house’s re-opening after the damage of the war...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2006

Schubert Piano Trio No 2

The opening to this trio appears to take up the gauntlet thrown down by Beethoven’s mature piano trios – but...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/2006

Great European Organs, No.38

I suppose with a building as huge and astonishingly ornate as Milan Cathedral it is only natural to expect an...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1995

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