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Babadzhanian/Tjeknavorian Orchestral Works
Armen Babakhanian | Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra | Loris Tjeknavorian
Tjeknavorian’s concerto may have too many notes, but it is endearingly like a pastiche of a Khachaturian concerto, with added...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1998
'Fiesta'
Gustavo Dudamel | Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra
Being the sort of chap who nibbles the toffee off a Twix before the biscuit, I immediately flicked to the...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 8/2008
Suppe (Die) schöne Galathée
Despite the enduring popularity of some of his overtures‚ not one of Franz von Suppé’s more than 200 stage works...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
Lumbye More Galops, Marches and Dances
The career of Hans Christian Lumbye makes a fascinating story. Starting as a trumpeter in the Danish dragoon guards, he...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1994
Mahler Symphony No 8
The Royal Festival Hall was never a natural venue for Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, and I remember well how Klaus Tennstedt’s...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/2011
Bizet Orchestral Works
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | Jesús López-Cobos
Shelley was quite right, but the spirit of delight whose rarity he lamented is conspicuously present in Bizet's youthful symphony:...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1990
Stoker Piano Works
On the evidence of this generous anthology, Yorkshire-born Richard Stoker (b.1938) is a likeable, fastidious composer of impressive stylistic and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999
Reflections on Duke Ellington
One of the fascinating things about Ellington is the way that tunes he wrote for his band – sometimes on...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1999
Haydn String Quartets, Op. 71, 1 & 2
The six quartets, Op. 71 Nos. 1-3 and Op. 74 Nos. 1-3, belong to the period of Haydn's first visit...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 4/1983
The Music of Eric Coates
Adrian Boult | BBC Concert Orchestra | Ian Wallace
A one-time violist with the Hamburg String Quartet, Eric Coates (a pupils of Lionel Tertis) also played in the Queen's...
Reviewed in issue 3/1995
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