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Great Conductors - Bruno Walter

Absorbing documents these, though the magnetism is less in the music than in the men who made it. Indeed, you...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2003

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition. Stravinsky Firebird

The current Gramophone Compact Disc Guide and Catalogue lists four versions of the Mussorgsky and four of the complete Firebird....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1985

Chopin: Piano works

Andrea Lucchesini was born as recently as 1965, in Italy, and this is not his first record for the sleeve...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Tavener Mary of Egypt

''Mary is like two hours in a warm bath,'' wrote my colleague on The Independent on Sunday. Perhaps, when all...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1993

Shostakovich Symphonies

Inbal's Shostakovich is cool, wistful and deracinated, very much an acquired taste – although those who have acquired it will...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Margarete Teschemacher (1903-1959)

To judge by the number of records she made, Teschemacher must have been one of the most popular sopranos in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992

Guédron Soupirs Meslés d'Amour

The rarefied charm of this quintessentially courtly music is well rendered by Claudine Ansermet’s light soprano; particular emphasis has been...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1998

Mozart Symphonies Nos. 33 & 40

The Academy of London; a new recording and performing group, has set itself up as an obvious competitor to another,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1986

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

Concerts seldom begin with overtures these days. Rimsky’s Overture for Ivan the Terrible which opens this Chandos collection would grace...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2007

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice

Just over a year ago, a recording of Gluck’s Orphee et Eurydice was issued with Ewa Podles in the central...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1999

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