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Tchaikovsky Manfred

One of EMI's earliest digital recordings, made in the Kingsway Hall, now emerges the more vividly on CD. It was...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987

Bach Das Wohltemperirte Klavier, Book 1

Astonishing as it may seem to us today, it was not until 1928 that a complete recording of Book 1...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6. Romeo and Juliet

These celebrated performances from Guido Cantelli and the Philhanmonia Orchestra have not been in circulation since the demise of World...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1989

Haydn (Die) Schöpfung

Probably no major Haydn work is harder to “sell” today than his Italian oratorio Il ritorno di Tobia, composed for...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2008

L. Mozart and Starzer orchestral works

The Mozart family humour is not famous for its subtlety, and I should not be surprised if quite a lot...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1989

Brahms: Hungarian Dances

A certain amount of interpretative freedom is desirable in these dances, if not essential. Jarvi is, of course, a master...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991

Haydn/Mozart Lieder

While von Otter is attending to serious matters in this selection, she only adds to her growing reputation in song....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1996

Bach: Solo Violin Partitas and Sonatas

As some readers will know, Shlomo Mintz, still in his middle twenties, was born in Russia and brought up in...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

R.Strauss Don Quixote; Tod und Verklärung

Karajan’s last knight of the woeful countenance has had his artifical fangs removed, courtesy of DG’s Original-Image-Bit-Processing: with strings both...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty Suites

Muti's new coupling of suites from Tchaikovsky's two major ballets is an attractive one. The ambience of the Fairmount Park...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985

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