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Bingham Jacob's Ladder

With a premiere at the Proms and the release of this, the second Naxos disc devoted to her music, Judith...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/2011

Bernstein Symphony No 3, 'Kaddish'; Weill (Das) Berliner Requiem

The problematic performance here is the Kaddish Symphony (1963). As the booklet-notes remind us, Bernstein went through considerable torment to...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 8/2008

Debussy: Piano Works

This is a very successful recital, recorded 20 years ago but well worth this CD transfer. Tamas Vasary has the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1991

Verdi Heroines - Angela Gheorghiu

So much is enthralling in this superbly executed recital that it is hard to know where to begin. In some...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2000

Spohr Piano Trios

The Hartley Piano Trio do well by Spohr’s demanding Third Trio, in A minor, keeping everything light and amiable, emphasizing...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1996

Bruckner Symphony No 5 (Schalk Edition: 1894)

Hearing Leon Botstein and the LPO dancing their way through the savagely cut and extensively reorchestrated finale of Bruckner’s epic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1999

Mozart Divertimenti

Mozart's Divertimento, K287, is scored for two violins, viola, two horns and bass, a combination which cannot be easy to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Bartók Orchestral Works

As Jarvi so wholeheartedly reminds us, Bartok was never more self-indulgently effusive with his orchestral skills than in The wooden...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1991

Britten Paul Bunyan

Although Britten talked excitedly while composing Paul Bunyan about a Broadway production, it was in fact carefully written for the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2000

Concord of Sweet Sounds

Players of the flute (whether traverse or fipple) and lute certainly played together in pre-classical times, and the lute was...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1988

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