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Having recorded his Mozart series for Telarc with the Prague Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras here turns to the admirable American Orchestra of St Luke's for Haydn, an outstanding issue in every way, vividly recorded. What may surprise many on looking at the information above is that two...

Rickenbacher's resolutely Germanic approach better serves the pieties of Mathis than the fanciful parodies of the Weber Metamorphosis. In the opening bars of the former, each radiating string phrase assumes its own halo of sound: Hindemith's "Concert of Angels" singing to the tune of a believer....

A new set of The Planets on Virgin Classics offers the kind of lively, committed playing one expects from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra today and a zestful, direct approach from Sir Charles Mackerras. The recording, made in Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall, is full and spacious but...

PROKOFIEV. Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 133 (cpted. Blok). Cello Concertino, Op. 132 (cpted. Rostropovich, orch. Kabalevsky). Steven Isserlis (ye); °London Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton. Virgin Classics a) L:1 VC7 90811-4; (D VC7 90811-2 (55 minutes: ODD). Kabalevsky—comparative version: