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Lilburn Symphonies

The present‚ stirring triptych was recorded just a week or so before Douglas Lilburn’s death‚ aged 85‚ in June of...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Kabalevsky Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4; Symphony No 2

As the work of a 24-year-old seeking to make his mark, Kabalevsky's First Piano Concerto is unsurprisingly replete with references...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2007

Schubert Piano Duets, Vol. 3

This is the third disc in this duo's current Schubert series and contains music written in 1824, the same year...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1994

Beethoven/Rossini/Schubert Orchestral Works

Here are two of Davis’s first records, and one Szell made three months before his death. You will look in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1996

Mozart String Quartets

What’s it to be? Andante or Allegretto? That’s the choice for the slow movement of K590. The first option is...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2011

Boito Mefistofele

Counting video and LaserDisc, there are currently five versions of Mefistofele in the catalogue (three of them featuring Samuel Ramey...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1996

Eastern Europe - A musical Journey

The Albanian violinist Alda Dizdari, has been featured as Gramophone’s “One to Watch” (5/11) and this disc, taken from a...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2011

Vivaldi Flute Sonatas

This recording of seven sonatas, some by Vivaldi, others definitely or probably not, was made in 1991 and was initially...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1999

Goldschmidt Retrospectrum

First came a realization, in his opera Der gewaltige Hahnrei (Decca, 3/94) and elsewhere, of the sheer quality of the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1995

Elgar Symphony No 1; Sea Pictures

Andrew Davis’s new recordings of the Elgar symphonies along with the early Froissart Overture were recorded live at the Queen...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2010

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