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Tansman String Quartets, etc

The story is that Alexander Tansman (1897-1986) was severely criticized for early avant-garde tendencies in his native Poland, and found...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1992

Wagner Arias

A quote on the sleeve of this new record, refering to Behren's Brunnhilde, says it all: ''It would have been...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1986

Mozart Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos 19 & 20

Greatly celebrated in Chopin and in the Russian Romantics, Nikolai Lugansky here turns to Mozart where his musicianship and impeccable...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2002

Debussy: 2-Piano Works

This is an admirable release, and it would have been even better had the sound quality been a little more...

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

R. Strauss: The Extinguished Festivities

With this disc, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra completes its recordings of Strauss's full-length ballets, a most valuable contribution to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

Russian Orchestral Music

Miaskovsky's twenty-first was for a long time the one symphony which kept his name alive in the West. Originally a...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Haydn Symphonies, Volume 5 - Nos 70-81

The right venue makes all the difference; and Nimbus was right to choose the Haydnsaal at Schloss Eisenstadt because the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2000

D. Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas

Scarlatti described his sonatas as ''an ingenious jesting with art'' and Blandine Verlet once said to me, ''You don't play...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1987

Mozart and Haydn: Wind Concertos

These four concertos, played by principals from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, were recorded over a three-year period when session time...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Friedman; Grainger; Murdoch Bach Transcriptions

Volume 3 of Hyperion’s continuing series of Bach transcriptions could hardly be more exhilarating or enterprising. Even when there is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2003

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