Falla
Music for Stage and Screen (Albion Records)
A valuable contribution to the recorded legacy of British music [JF]
Jorge Bolet (piano) His earliest recordings (APR)
Bolet at his sparkling best back in the catalogue [RCh]
Homeland: Grieg and de Falla (Eudora)
De Falla’s evocative music is the highlight of this disc with its unusual but highly effective coupling [RCh]
Leopold Stokowski (conductor) BBC Legends Recordings 1963-74 (ICA Classics)
A collection of Stokowski’s live performances from the end of his career is inevitably something of a mixed bag [PCG]
Isolde Menges (violin) (Biddulph)
A great artist’s important legacy restored, including first recordings of Beethoven, Bach and Vaughan Williams [JW]
Falla: El amor brujo (Forgotten Records)
Irina Arkhipova steals the show in El amor brujo [MBu]
René Benedetti (violin): In Concert (Biddulph)
Suave, stylish, scintillating and virtuosic; René Benedetti in his prime [JW]
Javier Laso (piano) New Worlds (Eudora)
Four masterpieces from four distinct strands of twentieth-century music [JF]
Neville Marriner (conductor): The Complete Warner Classics Recordings (Warner Classics)
An 80-CD centenary salute to Marriner, with (or without) his ASMF [JW]
Ivan Petricevic (guitar): Guitar Intersections (Hänssler Classic)
Refined playing with a big sound [ZT]
Ichiro Suzuki (guitar): Intimate (IBS Classical)
The intimate guitar at its best [ZT]
Soaked in Colour (Fuga Libera)
There are a few winners here, but no consistency [MP]
Falla: El corregidor y la molinera (IBS Classical)
Spanish wit, musical clichés and sunshine [JF]
Fatma Said (soprano) (Warner Classics)
A ravishing debut album that heralds a great future for this artist [MP]
Ataúlfo Argenta (conductor) (EMI Classics)
(Déjà Review) Lisztians need to hear Argenta’s Faust; his El Amor Brujo is perhaps the best ever [RB]
Robert Casadesus (piano): Brahms/Falla (Maestro Editions)
Ringingly affirmative Brahms and a good if ordinary de Falla [RB]
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