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French Works inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

Like Dickens's fat boy, Georges Pretre is out to make our flesh creep. Thanks to brilliant translations by Baudelaire and...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1985

Leschetizky Piano Concerto; Piano Works

The last track on this undemanding sweet-trolley of a disc is a 1907 Edison recording of Leschetizky himself declaiming his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2009

Beethoven Orchestral Works

Though it was a variable set, one of the early examples of Bernstein using the technique of edited live recordings,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1987

Bortkiewicz Piano Works, Volume 1

Whatever Sergei Bortkiewicz’s music may lack in weight and profundity (at least in the pieces presented on this disc) it...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1997

Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs; On Wenlock Edge

Safely stowed, another derelict from the Collins English song series comes aboard the well-stocked Naxos vessel, bound, we’ll hope, for...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

There’s much to admire about Vladimir Ashkenazy’s first recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. His Beethoven style is more forthright and...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2007

Wagner Orchestral Works

This is the most exciting modern collection of Wagnerian 'purple patches' now in the catalogue. Yuri Simonov chances his arm...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1991

Gould - Unreleased Broadcast Performances

The current popularity of Schulhoff’s chamber music on disc extends to the works of his student years which may or...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Boito Mefistofele

The LP set of this recording came out recently enough for me not to need to review it again in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1985

Locke Complete Keyboard Works

While it is hard to believe that Matthew Locke really can have been ‘one of the most quarrelsome, acrimonious and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2004

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