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Pavel Nersessian plays Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty

Pavel Nersessian is a 33-year-old Russian pianist and a prize-winner in many competitions. He is also the sort of free...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1998

Percussion XX

From the title, and the fact that its one of the first discs to bear the DVD-Audio logo, you might...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 1/2000

Shostakovich Orchestral Works

Ashkenazy's Shostakovich Eighth steers a middle course between the glacial stoicism of Maxim Shostakovich and the fresher, more urgent 'authenticity'...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Puccini Songs & Rare Pieces

Though I would have preferred a more warmly Italianate soprano tone for this repertory than Roberta Alexander's, this is an...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1988

Haydn Symphonies 93 & 99

Solti is an amazingly unpredictable conductor. His early international reputation rests on his exhilaratingly brilliant survey of Wagner's Ring cycle,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1987

German Operetta Overtures

No, these are not all operetta overtures, a point recognized in the typography for the word ‘Operetta’ on the jewel-case,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1999

None but the lonely heart

It is now 13 years since Amanda Roocroft recorded two operatic recitals that I found so difficult to recommend, the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2008

Severn & Somme

One should not, I suppose, talk of “nailing” composers, particularly one so sensitive as Ivor Gurney. But it is a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2006

Wagner Siegfried

In Mime’s smithy, a tatty kitchen-diner, he clinks spoons on bowls instead of hammering swords, and reacts to stress by...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 6/2004

Glass Dance Pieces

Collectors of Glass should be warned that this new issue is not as generous or novel as it might at...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

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