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Schubert Winterreise

I should have learnt long ago how foolish it is to make an 'outright recommendation' in these pages, because as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989

Rossini Armida

Rossini's Armida is one of the finest of musical realisations of Tasso's tale of the temptress with supernatural powers. Only...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2000

Bezaly & Brautigam - Masterworks for Flute and Piano

The glowing richness of Sharon Bezaly’s tone is immediately striking. It may be something of an acquired taste compared to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 6/2006

The Jerome Kern Collection

Prior to writing this review I had heard this recording when it was being played in a Cornish tea-shop where...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/1995

Berlioz - Les Troyens (English)

This 1957 production of Berlioz’s epic five-act opera was the first modern attempt to stage the whole work in one...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 10/2009

Violin Transcriptions by Heifetz

It is interesting to compare Heifetz's transcriptions with those of Kreisler. Whereas the latter was an accomplished composer, whose original...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1988

Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 1

Kun-Woo Paik starts a Beethoven cycle for Decca with mixed results. On the plus side, his muscular, energetic pianism suits...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2005

Wagner Overtures & Preludes

Glorious sound here: rich, warm and spacious. There is refined detail, too, partly the result of the conductor's care both...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1991

Borodin; Rachmaninov; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas

Who is going to turn up their noses at 82 and a half minutes of Russian cello-and-piano classics, delivered with...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2011

Maxwell Davies Concertos for Piano and Piccolo. Maxwell's Reel.

Peter Maxwell Davies has written more concertos than most, but this is his first for the most popular of all...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1998

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