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Leoncavallo I Pagliacci

Karajan’s Pagliacci is a classic, not only a very fine performance but one filled with a Northern European’s deep enjoyment...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1997

Quilter Complete Folk-Song Arrangements

Best known for his gorgeous, immaculately crafted songs, Roger Quilter (1877-1953) also held an abiding love of the English folksong...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2006

Purcell (The) Fairy Queen; (The) Prophetess - Suites

Recorded in 1996, just after the tercentenary of Purcell’s death, Jordi Savall’s strongly flavoured performances of suites culled from Dioclesian...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 1/2010

Scarlatti 21 Keyboard Sonatas

Here are 21 sonatas played with spirit and pianistic panache set in an acoustic that emphasizes the ‘bigness’ of Shehori’s...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/1988

Saint-Saëns - Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra(The)

Cast your eye over the listings of these concertos in the classical catalogue and you’ll find half a column of...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 3; Oboe Concerto

Vaughan Williams's greatest and most original symphony—yes, I mean that—is also the most difficult from an interpretative standpoint. Bryden Thomson...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Rossini Opera Arias

In a recital of this type, interest naturally centres on the singer, but it is also good to see the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Rachmaninov The Miserly Knight

Pushkin's ''little tragedies'' have attracted a number of composers (Dargomizhsky to The Stone Guest, Rimsky-Korsakov to Mozart and Salieri). He...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1994

Martin Piano Works

The Eight Preludes pour le piano written for Lipatti are inventive and imaginative pieces and have been recorded by the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1994

Haydn Symphonies

The Furtwangler CD couples two justly famous studio performances from the LP era, neither of which suffers unduly from comparison...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

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