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Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 3 & 5

The very opening of A Pastoral Symphony points the difference between Boult and Previn. Previn phrases the woodwind quavers quite...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Seventeenth-Century German Works

This is a carefully-planned and sensitively performed selection of little-known pieces by Heinrich Schutz and his contemporaries; it also includes...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 9/1987

Shostakovich: Film Music

How wonderful if we could have complete films on video, rather than suites of extracts which were never intended to...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Schubert Piano Trios

There seem to be two contrasting approaches to period-instrument performance. Either one goes all out for euphony, for making everything...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/1997

Caccini (L')Euridice

Here we are at the dawn of opera, and there is a tangled tale to tell. A key figure is...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 3/2009

Verdi Ernani

Riccardo Muti has done much to return La Scala to its place as the leading opera house for Verdi stagings....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2005

1997 New Year's Day Concert

One of the wonders each year of the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day Concert is the way it illuminates and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1997

Wieniawski Virtuoso Showpieces

Ruggiero Ricci recorded this collection of Wieniawski showpieces a dozen years ago, when his playing still retained much of its...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 6/1992

Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances/Isle of the Dead/Rock

Andrew Davis’s Rachmaninov is conscientious and well prepared but by no means competitive with the very best. Unless you want...

Reviewed in issue 3/1998

Brahms: Piano Works

Robert Layton discussed the Brahms/Gilels concerto recordings last when they were issued separately on LP (10/80 and 4/81—they are also...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1986

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