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Tchaikovsky: Songs

Tchaikovsky's songs, over 100 of them, are still too little known, perhaps in part because the tradition is unfamiliar to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1989

Gigout Complete Organ Works, Vol 3

Until Gerard Brooks came on the scene, I doubt whether any but the most dedicated specialists had any idea just...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2004

Russian Cello Works

Hoffman and Bianconi's performances here are most appealing - rich-sounding and warmly romantic. In the Shostakovich Sonata they don't have...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2000

Lehár Die lustige Witwe

First the cliche. You wait 14 years for a new Merry Widow and then two come along at once! Only...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1995

Mozart Lieder & Concert Arias

To mark her seventy-fifth birthday EMI have produced this formidable tribute to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's art. Each of these CDs is...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Bach Keyboard Works

My enthusiasm for these pianistically accomplished performances is muted by an assortment of infelicities, of which I list only a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1987

Alain Complete Organ Works

This is the most comprehensive and by far and away the most impressive recording yet of Alain’s organ music. Bowyer...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1998

Paganini Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2

Did Paganini play in tune? We’ll never know, of course, but he certainly set himself extraordinary challenges, and with most...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2009

Stokowski Conducts

Easily the finest of these Stokowski reissues is the EMI Phoenixa ''Showcase'' collection. The recordings were made at the unlikely...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1992

Basque Music Collection, Vol 2 - Usandizaga

Of the six works here by the Basque composer Usandizaga (who died at the tragically early age of 28), the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1999

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