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Vivaldi: Concertos for Recorder

The five basic recorder concertos of Vivaldi have been gathered together by others, but only Peter Holtslag, with The Parley...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1990

Bartók Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Two Portraits

Maurizio Pollini’s hard-hitting approach works best in the First Concerto, where the Chicago players circle the pianist like a street...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

Mozart Symphonies No. 38 & 40

With nearly two dozen Prague Symphonies available on CD and over 30 G minors this latest arrival is up against...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1989

Arriaga/Vorisek Symphonies

A curious set of parallels links the two composers here. Both were child prodigies who died, within two months of...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1995

Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 3

It would be interesting to know what order of movements was chosen in making this recording. If the logical course...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985

Stravinsky Firebird

Many of the reservations I had over the sound of the LP version of this complete Firebird recording disappear on...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1984

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Here is a real and most welcome bargain. This version has held a high place in the work's discography ever...

Reviewed in issue 9/1995

Unquiet Peace The Lied Between the Wars

A most intelligent and thought-provoking piece of programme-planning: Steven Blier is evidently America's Graham Johnson or Roger Vignoles. There's no...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1993

Bruckner Symphony No 4

The contrast between Karajan's two recordings of Bruckner's Romantic Symphony was always striking, the 1970 EMI version mistily, beautifully and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1994

Borodin/Tchaikovsky Symphonies

Just how brilliantly the vintage Philharmonia Orchestra could play in the mid 1950s comes out in almost every bar of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1995

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