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Penderecki/Van de Vate Orchestral Works

All that one gains from the CD insert sheet about Nancy Van de Vate is that she was born in...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1990

Schubert Piano Transcriptions

For this young Finnish prize-winning pianist to make his recorded début in so challenging and enterprising a programme is deeply...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003

Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

The BBC Legends series has already given us classic Mahler from Horenstein, Britten and Barbirolli. Rudolf Kempe’s Mahlerian credentials are...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Tubin Symphonies Nos 1 & 8

Vividly scored and dynamically expressive, Tubin’s symphonies span almost his entire creative career. The First, only his third orchestral score,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2003

The Beggar's Opera 1968 London Cast

Primarily a memento of Toby Robertson's production of 1968, this has attractions that are certainly not limited to those who...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Sibelius Cantatas and Orchestral Music

Occasional works by composers famous in other genres are often problematic, largely because the nature of such commissions forces a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2000

Geminiani: Concertos & Sonatas

With this recording, the Purcell Quartet reach the mid-point in their six-part series of chamber music based on La folia,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

French Bonbons

This splendid collection is a worthy successor to many nostalgically re-membered LPs by Paul Paray and others, and if I...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2000

Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia

Neither of these recordings met with a really enthusiastic review when first released on LP: Andrew Porter found Caballe undramatic,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Bruch; Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos

This is the fifth disc that Nicola Benedetti has recorded for DG since her remarkable win in the BBC Young...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2010

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