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Eastern Approaches

These three pieces for string trio and quartet from former Soviet Republics make an attractive programme, but their juxtaposition rather...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2003

Mozart Così Fan Tutte

When this set was first reviewed, it was compared unfavourably by Alec Robertson with the exactly contemporaneous Bohm version on...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996

Ginastera Orchestral Works

Like Bartok, for whom he had the greatest admiration, Ginastera started out from a purely nationalist folk idiom, absorbed and...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1989

Toscanini conducts Russian works

Much of Sibelius’s music for the 1899 Press Celebrations – a fundraising event for journalists and press workers thrown out...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2000

Dances from Hungary

Nowadays there seems to be a very narrow division between ‘young’ and ‘youth’ orchestras, playing standards having rocketed since the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2004

Theile St Matthew Passion

Johann Theile is chiefly remembered in history books, if remembered at all, as the composer of the opera which inaugurated...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1984

Wagner (Das) Rheingold

Karajan’s attempt to film his Salzburg Ring in a studio in Munich with a new soundtrack (not using his DG...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2010

Bach Six Suites for Solo Cello,BWV1007-1012

Peter Bruns, the principal cellist of the Dresden Staatskapelle, plays a magnificently rich-toned 1730 cello by Tononi which used to...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1997

Mendelssohn and Shostakovich Octets

Two of Britain's finest string quartets combine here in a highly enjoyable performance of the Mendelssohn Octet. They find an...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Gigout Complete Organ Works, Vol 5

Eugène Gigout was a contemporary of Fauré and Saint-Saëns; like them he was a church organist in Paris and he...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 4/2006

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