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Smetana Má Vlast

At the age of 46 Talich had been Chief Conductor of the re-formed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for just over a...

Reviewed in issue 6/1991

Schütz: Motets

This anthology of German and Latin motets by Heinrich Schutz was greeted with muted approval rather than loud applause when...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Bach: Flute Sonatas

These are carefully thought-out and scrupulously executed performances in which no risk is taken. Nicolet adds basic ornaments where they...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1989

Berg Violin Concerto etc

Kremer gives a beautifully tender account of the first movement of the Concerto, aided by a markedly slower opening tempo...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1985

Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 3 - 6

In my July 2002 ‘Collection’ on Vaughan Williams’s A Pastoral Symphony I waxed lyrical about André Previn’s January 1971 account...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2003

Beethoven Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 3; Piano Sonatas Nos 23 & 28

Just because the Beethoven Third Concerto recorded for West German Radio Cologne on February 25, 1957, was well preserved does...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2008

Emily Beynon - Flute & Friends

This is a rare treat, music by five very different women composers, played by one of the leading exponents of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2008

Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Having hungrily devoured every note of Kertesz's Bluebeard when it was first issued back in 1966, I approached this latest...

Reviewed in issue 4/1995

Prokofiev Semyon Kotko

Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko contains some first-rate music whether you choose to look at it as a transmutation of the not...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2003

Berlioz L'enfance du Christ

This new recording of Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ, by the choir of King's College, Cambridge, comes, most appropriately, just as...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1990

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