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Bax Symphonic Variations; Morning Song
Bryden Thomson | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Margaret Fingerhut
Bax wrote his Symphonic Variations during the 1914–18 war for Harriet Cohen (with whom he was by then living, having...
Reviewed in issue 2/1988
Beethoven The Piano Concertos
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | Radu Lupu | Zubin Mehta
I vividly recall hearing Radu Lupu play Beethoven’s C major Concerto at the 1976 Edinburgh Festival, two years or so...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1996
Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tirésias; Le Bal masqué
If you have never hunted elephants ''the Zanzibar way'', now could be the time to start. Apollinaire's play, written in...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/1995
Bach Suites for Solo Cello
Any worthy recording of Bach’s solo cello compositions celebrates the balance of mind and body, prayer and dance, scholarship and...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn Piano Trios
Arthur Rubinstein | Gregor Piatigorsky | Jascha Heifetz
The Mendelssohn first appeared in this country in harness with the Ravel Trio, and the Tchaikovsky was listed in the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1989
Haydn Symphonies
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner
Over the years the ASMF's systematic investigation of the Kochel catalogue has left them relatively little time for Haydn. But...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1992
Hear My Words
David Goode | Eton College Chapel Choir
Any member of any cathedral or half-decent Anglican church choir should know most of these anthems. Others may question the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2008
Vox aurea
Emmanuel Bonnardot | Obsidienne | Renaissance Recorders
“Vox Aurea” – the golden voice – was the humanist philosopher Erasmus’s elegiac description of Ockeghem. It may have been...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1998
Mahler Symphonies Nos 6 & 7
Lorin Maazel | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Maazel's greatest selling-point is his orchestra. The burnished Vienna string sound, phrasing so sweetly sustained through Mahler's longest lines, is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1989
Bach Cantatas, Vol 6
In an era abounding in Bach cantatas come two discriminating cycles, whose releases reflect considered choice of work rather than,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2008
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