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Shostakovich (The) Nose

It has been a long wait for a recording of the young Shostakovich’s grotesque morality-opera that would rival Rozhdestvensky’s, made...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2009

20th Century Portraits: Isang Yun

Begun in 1975, six years after the composer’s release from two years’ imprisonment in South Korea, which followed his abduction...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2004

Stravinsky Orpheus; Danses concertantes

As recorded ‘blueprints’ of these neo-classical ballet scores, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s conductorless Stravinsky is more accomplished than the composer’s...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1999

Works for Violin and Piano

It is astonishing to find that Gil Shaham, still in his teens, was only 15 when he recorded this formidable...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1990

Herbert - Orchestral Music, Vol. 3

Victor Herbert’s output was large but uneven. The Auditorium Festival March that opens this collection is one work I imagine...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/2000

Richard Strauss: Lieder

The refulgence of Jessye Norman's tone and ehr well-known conviction singing make her an almost ideal interpreter of such songs...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1986

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 8

Because new here, Bolet's Consolations first. These six pieces date from 1849-50, when Liszt has just abandoned the concert platform...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1987

Rutter Requiem

Naxos has done well to invite the choir of Rutter’s own Cambridge college to represent him in its catalogue, which...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003

Baltic Voices, Vol 1

This is the start of a three-year project in which Paul Hillier is to explore the choral repertoire from lands...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2002

Orff Carmina burana

It is good to be reminded how much more sympathetic on record the sound is in the Jesus Christus Kirche...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1984

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