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Rossini Album Francais

This is a very collectable CD. In the first place, it gives us not some arbitrary and ill-matched selection from...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1993

Crystal Tears

This disc grows on me. Inevitably, Andreas Scholl gets the headline treatment, though the man himself seems very much a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2008

Liszt: Piano Works

This is an expansion of the five-LP boxed set (6725 013) which I reviewed last November. What Philips have done...

Reviewed in issue 7/1983

Lucifer - New Pieces for Brass Ensemble & Piano

Nobody who has heard Xenakis’s Eonta for brass and piano will forget the patina-like figuration of that seminal work which...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2006

Schumann Duets

This is a model of a mid-price reissue – interesting, neglected material performed to perfection with texts and translations provided....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999

Bacewicz; Zarebski Piano Quintets

Juliusz Zarebski (1854-85) was a renowned pianist and composer, garnering high praise from Liszt (who took him as a pupil)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2006

Boccherini Stabat Mater

Boccherini’s few surviving vocal works have received little attention on disc. His attractive Stabat mater for solo soprano, two violins,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2006

Bach Brandenburg Concertos

Considering his vast experience as a Bach conductor, it comes as a surprise to find that Sir John Eliot Gardiner...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2010

Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos

Two previous discs from Philips of Vivaldi bassoon concertos, played by Klaus Thunemann with I Musici, have been giving me...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1996

Tchaikovsky Cello Works

Convenient as it is to have all Tchaikovsky's works for cello and orchestra (and a few more arrangements for the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1992

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