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Review of Bach Cantatas Nos 12, 38 and 75

Bach Cantatas Nos 12, 38 and 75

Carolyn Sampson | Daniel Taylor | Ghent Collegium Vocale | Mark Padmore | Peter Kooy | Philippe Herreweghe

Harmonia Mundi

Philippe Herreweghe’s Bach journey is unusual in not forming part of a complete edition. Rather, Collegium Vocale select – usually...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2005

Review of Auric Film Music

Auric Film Music

Anthea Kempston | BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Mary Carewe | Rumon Gamba

Chandos

All the scores here (expertly reconstructed by Philip Lane, and including some music cues that were cut from final film...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1999

Review of 25 Years Experimentalstudio Freiburg

25 Years Experimentalstudio Freiburg

Andrew Digby | Christian Dierstein | Claudia Barainsky | Elisabeth Rave | Ensemble Modern | Ernest Bour | Françoise Rivalland | Gregory Johns | Hae-Sun Kang | Irina Kataeva

Col legno

It is good that these sets have appeared in the UK. Not only are many of the composers unfamiliar here,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/1999

Review of Falla Orchestral and Instrumental Works

Falla Orchestral and Instrumental Works

Edmon Colomer | Rafael Orozco | Spanish National Youth Orchestra

Valois

It is good that Cordoba-born Rafael Orozco has returned to the studios, and never more so than in the Spanish...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Review of Haydn Divertimenti, Volume 3

Haydn Divertimenti, Volume 3

Manfred Huss | Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta

Koch Schwann

Like the others in the series, the third volume of Haydn Divertimentos from Manfred Huss and the Haydn Sinfonietta benefits...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Review of Beethoven Quartet Orchestrations

Beethoven Quartet Orchestrations

Leonard Bernstein | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

DG

When the young Leonard Bernstein was a student at Harvard University he went to Dmitri Mitropoulos's first concert with the...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1992

Review of Corp, R Piano Concerto No. 1; Symphony No. 1

Corp, R Piano Concerto No. 1; Symphony No. 1

Leon McCawley | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Epoch

Ronald Corp has established a formidable reputation as a conductor, particularly of choirs, notably of children’s choirs. Yet increasingly, Corp...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2010

Review of Sibelius Symphony No 2

Sibelius Symphony No 2

Alexander Gibson | Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Chandos

Sir Alexander Gibson received the Sibelius Medal in 1978 ''for his outstanding contribution to the appreciation of Sibelius's music throughout...

Reviewed in issue 3/1984

Review of Paderewski Piano Concerto; Fantaisie Polonaise

Paderewski Piano Concerto; Fantaisie Polonaise

Ewa Kupiec | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hugh Wolff

Koch Schwann

Paderewski’s two romantic gewgaws for piano and orchestra are neatly coupled and performed by Ewa Kupiec and the Frankfurt RSO...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1999

Review of Honegger Symphonies

Honegger Symphonies

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan

20th Century Classics

Honegger's five symphonies are all available on CD in well recorded performances from Erato by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1988

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