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Britten - Orchestral Works

As in previous instalments in Collins Classics’s exemplary Britten edition, Steuart Bedford brings a keen perception and rare intelligence to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998

Prokofiev Complete Piano Concertos

Michel Beroff for EMI arguably finds subtler shadings, a richer palette of nuance in these perpetually fascinating pieces, but for...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1990

Wolf-Ferrari - Orchestral Works

This well filled disc duplicates exactly the same repertoire that appeared on a 1993 recording with the Royal Philharmonic under...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2009

Music from Renaissance Portugal

The Cambridge Taverner Choir's first recording reflects the research interests of its director Owen Rees: Renaissance polyphony from Portugal. This...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 1/1994

Beethoven Bagatelles

If we leave aside the separate pieces that Grove lists as Beethoven's bagatelles, one of which is Fur Elise, there...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992

Organ Spectacular

This is the sort of experience which makes small boys want to become organists. Not only is it first-class entertainment,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Tchaikovsky arr C Davis Alice In Wonderland

Three grand Tchaikovsky scores are evidently not enough! A telephone call in 1995 from Derek Deane, then the artistic director...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2009

Menuhin in Japan (1951)

Now this really is something – a fully fired-up Menuhin, high on adrenalin and relishing the thrill of the moment....

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Rachmaninov The Bells. Symphonic Dances.

A distinguished choral conductor, Valery Polyansky's orchestral ventures have often struck me as more dutiful than inspired. As a Rozhdestvensky...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2000

Dame Felicity Lott - Song Recital

With the retirement of its great director William Lyne and the recent resignation of his successor Paul Kildea, the Wigmore...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2005

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