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Verdi (La) Traviata

This is the Traviata famous for what it is not – it should have been ‘the Callas’. Any EMI recording...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Haydn The London Symphonies

When they first appeared on LP, between 1976 and 1982, Sir Colin Davis's recordings of Haydn's climactic ''London'' Symphonies drove...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1992

Shostakovich; Schnittke Piano Trios

The Kempf Trio is no more but this is a worthy souvenir of a fine ensemble. The big Shostakovich E...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2010

Beethoven Piano Sonatas 8, 14 & 23

Last September I expressed a strong preference for Barenboim's EMI Compact Disc over Ashkenazy, Brendel and Buchbinder. I am still...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Eshkeri Young Victoria OST

The music for this film owes its dues to the composers who were writing during Victoria’s long reign, as well...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 7/2009

Brahms Violin Sonatas

By a useful coincidence, just minutes before receiving this stimulating set of performances I had been listening to a glorious...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Hovhaness Orchestral Works

Yet more weirdly beguiling visions from this prolific composer. In the 1968 chamber symphony Mountains and Rivers without End, sliding...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1994

Haydn Symphonies

Haydn composed most, if not all, of the six ''Paris'' Symphonies specifically for the famed Concert de la Loge Olympique,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1992

Paganini Violin Concertos

Although this new Denon record is very truthfully recorded, in some ways the orchestral sound of the older analogue DG...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1992

Tovey Symphony in D, Op 32; (The) Bride of Dionysus: Prelude

Long-time Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, Sir Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) remains best known for his magnificently readable...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2006

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