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Emil Gilels plays Tchaikovsky

This label’s presentation is a disgrace: nothing on the music, soloist, conductors or provenance of the recordings (both dating from...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2011

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2

It looked wonderful on paper, but as so often with Olympian encounters, the evidence proved frustratingly uneven. The trouble is,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Orchestral works by Ireland and Bridge

All these works are small in scale and modest in their emotional range, but they make a highly enjoyable collection....

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

Tansman Orchestral Works

This disc scores highly on the rarity-value scale, but I suspect that only one of the works was really worth...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1993

Poulenc Les Dialogues des Carmelites

Kent Nagano and his Lyon forces may well follow their Gramophone Award-winning success of 1990—The love for three oranges—with another...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1992

Stiles Just So

Composer George Stiles and writer Anthony Drewe seem at home with the adventurous and imaginative in their musicals, as with...

Reviewed by jsnelson in issue: 8/2006

Nørgård Siddharta; For a Change

As in his second opera, Gilgamesh (1971-2), Per Norgard chose an ancient, legendary figure as the central character of his...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Hindemith (Das) Marien-Leben

Hindemith’s cycle to Rilke’s 15 poems has not received attention in the studio to match its critical standing. There are...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2009

Wagner/Mussorgsky Orchestral Works

The Wagner music is first, opening with an ebullient Lohengrin Prelude to Act 3 with an attractively believable clash to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1989

Valéry Gergiev in Rehearsal & Performance

Here is a DVD that delivers as much as it promises: which is to say‚ a great deal. The documentary...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

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