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Brahms Academic Festival Overture; Alto Rhapsody; Haydn Variations

This is an essential disc for admirers of the Dutch conductor Hans Vonk. He was in a wheelchair when in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2006

Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations etc

Mischa Maisky, Latvian-born but Russian by training and temperament, is nothing if not a highly individual artist. If in the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1997

Weber (Der) Freischutz; Oberon

These two performances are the fruit of Rome broadcasts in May 1973 before a live audience, not to say a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2006

Stravinsky Piano Works

This collection carries an imprimatur from Robert Craft, who praises Aleck Karis's ''great elan, shining musical intelligence and breathtaking technique''....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1995

Songs and Dances of Death

There are few operas I would rather see revived than Rubinstein's The Demon (first given in 1875). The three scenes...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994

American Chamber Works

This is a trio of American naive composers, more charm than substance but never difficult to listen to. Harrison's Double...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1991

España!

For those of us who feel an affinity with Spain, and I think even for those who don't, this must...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1994

Kraus Chamber Music

The symphonies of Kraus have been given a decent airing in 1992, the two hundredth anniversary of his death, but...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1993

Dufay Choral Works

For those (like this reviewer) who were still in short pants when the first of these recordings appeared, David Munrow’s...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1996

Vivaldi Farnace

Although 21 operas by Vivaldi survive (he claimed to have written over 90)‚ complete recordings of them are rare‚ despite...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

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