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Schnittke Film Music, Vol 2

Capriccio is not the only company to have had the idea of recording Schnittke’s film music. But with upwards of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2006

Bach, CPE Flute Concertos

The musical entourage in which Carl Philipp Emanuel was employed in 1738 by Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia was one...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Mussorgsky Nursery Songs; Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben

Sufism came to Turkey in the thirteenth century and since then it has offered the Turkish people a personal and...

Reviewed by dmuddyman in issue: 3/1983

Haydn Symphonies

Harnoncourt's previous recordings of late Haydn symphonies with the Concertgebouw have tended to be hard-driven, sometimes downright eccentric. But although...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1991

Verdi Nabucco

Twenty years have hardly lessened the excitement of listening to this vigorous, closely-knit performance. One realizes why we were all...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1987

Couperin Sacred Choral Works

Couperin's three surviving Lecons de tenebres, printed between 1713 and 1717—others almost certainly have been lost—are masterly and deeply affecting...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1990

Debussy: Orchestral transcriptions

I can't think that any of these pieces, clad in orchestral cloaks provided by others, can be regarded as great...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Stephan Orchestral Works

Rudi Stephan (1887-1915) remains one of 20th-century music’s most tantalising ‘might have beens’. Before his death aged just 28 in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2006

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

This LP (recorded by the BBC) originated from Brendel's Beethoven cycle at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1982-3, just a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1986

Toscanini conducts R.Strauss

Here is a glittering centenary tribute to Cuba’s King of Charmers. Shuttling effortlessly between Carnegie Hall, the Sid Caesar and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1997

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