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Holst & Jacob Chamber Works
Anthony Goldstone | Elysian Wind Quintet
We no longer need to be put off by the fact that Gustav Holst thought so little of these two...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1992
Debussy Piano Works, Vol. 4
It was in French music that I first heard and admired Gordon Fergus-Thompson in 1986 and I am delighted that...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1990
The Malcolm Smith Memorial Album
Malcolm Smith (1932-2011) was head of the Promotion and Hire Library at Boosey & Hawkes for many years and knew...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 03/2015
Cinema Serenade II - The Golden Age
Boston Pops Orchestra | Itzhak Perlman | John Towner Williams
Decidedly superior easy listening from Itzhak Perlman, immaculately partnered by John Williams and his smooth-as-silk Bostonians. Williams and Angela Morley...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1999
Visions of Elgar
Most of these recordings were made in 1944‑54, now assiduously quarried for forgotten treasures by collectors whose predecessors considered it...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2008
Dreamscapes
Meriel Dickinson | Peter Dickinson
Neglect is no respecter of style or quality: conservative or radical, good or bad, composers may find themselves disregarded for...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1990
JACOB; WILLIAMSON; CARWITHEN Piano Concertos
Innovation Chamber Ensemble | Mark Bebbington | Richard Jenkinson
Mark Bebbington is fast becoming the Iris Loveridge de nos jours with his championship of neglected British piano music. There...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
From Leipzig to London
A cleverly designed programme with three Bach sonata arrangements, one each for oboe, oboe d’amore and cor anglais, interwoven with...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2006
The Central Band of the Royal Air Force: British Classics
Jonathan Hill | Royal Air Force Central Band | Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs
It was my good fortune that the junior school I attended made a speciality of performing English folk dances, which...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2015
Mozart Wind Concertos
Andrew Litton | Caryl Thomas | Gordon Hunt | Jonathan Snowden | London Philharmonic Orchestra
For years Mozart's Oboe Concerto masqueraded as a work for flute: he'd transposed it hurriedly to meet a comminssion, and...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1987
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