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Banchieri Il Zabaione musicale

How far a sixteenth-century zabaione resembled the dessert we know and enjoy today, I’m not sure. But it’s an appetizing...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/1998

Ravel: Orchestral & Vocal Works

The playing of the orchestral items here is nothing short of sensational. The LSO has always responded to its former...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1989

Villa-Lobos Piano Works

The fourth volume of Sonia Rubinsky’s valuable cycle presents a cross-section from the random genius of Villa-Lobos’s piano music. Multi-coloured...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2005

Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder

The year 1849 alone – dubbed by Schumann “the most fruitful of my life” – should give the lie to...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2010

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

The recording quality here is probably one of the most realistic ever heard in a piano concerto. As I shall...

Reviewed in issue 11/1986

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suites

Many conductors create their own suites from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet; Paavo Järvi, however, seems content with the three official...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 2/2004

Shostakovich: Symphonies 6 and 11

How good to be comparing performances of these supposedly problematical symphonies that take them both perfectly seriously, asking for no...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1985

Weill Vocal & Instrumental Works

The fact that Kurt Weill's posthumous reputation hangs largely upon his music for the stage has diverted attention away from...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1991

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

In 1909 Diaghilev heard Stravinsky's early Fireworks at a St Petersburg concert, and immediately marked down the composer in his...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1991

Handel Messiah

It was this set which, in company with one from Sir Colin Davis issued by Philips a few weeks earlier,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1989

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