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Airs de Cour

The composers represented here are unlikely to be familiar to many, but the charming songs they composed to please the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1999

Rachmaninov Complete Songs

Here, taken from five records, are 84 songs by Rachmaninov recorded by Soderstrom and Ashkenazy in the 1970s (plus two...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1994

Bartók Piano Works, Vol.2

Zoltan Kocsis's Bartok series represents something of a double 'first', being the first comprehensive survey of Bartok's piano music to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Telemann Flute and Oboe Works

The European Baroque Soloists have so far produced two Telemann discs on the Denon label. The first contains a set...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1992

Beethoven Symphonies

In 1930, when these recordings were made, Mengelberg was at the end of a ten-year period as head of the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

German (The) Tempter Overture

Marco Polo’s sets of Edward German’s orchestral music (6/93, 11/95, 1/96) were welcome and now comes this generously filled CD....

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2006

Tye Latin & English Sacred Choral Works

Christopher Tye, like his contemporary Thomas Tallis, experienced life under the reigns of four monarchs. He composed for liturgies that...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/2005

Richard Strauss Conducts

In April 1926 a silent-film version of Der Rosenkavalier was given its first showing in London at the Tivoli Theatre,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1993

Handel Organ Concertos

The aura of Karl Richter, experienced by so many who witnessed his performances, is not something easily comprehended these days....

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/1996

Vivaldi Four Seasons & Tartini Devil's Trill

This is the most personal reading of Vivaldi's much-recorded set of concertos that I have ever heard. It is even...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1999

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