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Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1; Mendelssohn Capriccio Brillant

Margalit was perhaps an unexpected choice as soloist in this mighty work, but she fully justifies Chandos's faith in her...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Monteverdi: Madrigals

The Consort of Musicke's recordings of Monteverdi's madrigal have, to my ears, been rather uneven in quality, but there is...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 5/1986

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

This was not the first ‘complete’ Lucia on record (a version with Mercedes Capsir in the title­role appeared on Italian...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Harbison At First Light

John Harbison, whose name will have won wider audience recognition following the Met’s 1999 production of his F Scott Fitzgerald...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2000

Clementi Symphonies

Though this disc appears in Chandos's ''Contemporaries of Mozart'' series, there is hardly a trace here of the composer who...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/1994

Lazar Berman - Piano Recital

To be dubbed ''The Legendary'' can be a curse for a musician. But the fact is that Lazar Berman's Liszt...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Bruckner Mass No 3

If I have written ecstatically before about Bruckner's Mass in F minor, I ask readers' indulgence while I repeat myself....

Reviewed in issue 8/1989

Verdi Don Carlo

It is almost 30 years since Giulini's epoch-making and revealing revival of Don Carlos at Covent Garden; it is 17...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1987

Britten Sacred and Profane; Elgar Part Songs; Vaughan Williams Shakespeare Songs

It is rather odd – and perhaps highly commendable – that the title chosen for the disc should be that...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Liszt Piano Works: Sergio Fiorentino - Early Recordings, Vol. 3

The third volume of Sergio Fiorentino’s early Liszt recordings made during the 60s unites the contemplative (Volume 1) and the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2001

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