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Choral works

One of the oldest musical organizations in Berlin (a city celebrating its 750th anniversary) is the Singakademie, now only four...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1987

Debussy Mélodies

EMI have some explaining to do. This integrale of Debussy's songs contains 60 items; yet the booklet note states, without...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1992

Isabella I Queen of Castille

As the musicologist Rui Vieira Nery points out in his excellent notes to this album of music from the time...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 5/2005

Mozart (Le) Nozze di Figaro

René Jacobs always brings new ideas to the operas he conducts, and even to a work as familiar as Figaro...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2004

(The) Bach Players - Nun komm!

This is an admirable recording: intelligently conceived and well performed. Both cantatas open with a chorus in the shape of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2010

Chopin Piano Works

I have always thought of Nikita Magaloff (1912-92) as rather a dry old bird, an impression confirmed by the Chopin...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2005

Casadesus - First Family of the Piano

It’s pleasant to see the ‘first family’ in their home surroundings and Robert does nice take-offs of the pianist flamboyant...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2005

Lokumbe African Portraits

As the contemporary volume in Teldec’s Barenboim retrospective, this set features a varied selection of music written over a five-year...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2000

Brahms Orchestral Works

Toscanini's dramatic and skilfully managed account of the Tragic Overture at last finds a worthy partner in his live Queen's...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1989

Brian Symphony No 1, 'Gothic'

The Gothic is legendary for its length, for its everything-but-the-kitchen-sink scoring and for having been left unperformed (despite being widely...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1990

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