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Mendelssohn Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Jaime Laredo | Joseph Kalichstein | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
I enjoyed Kallichstein most in the slow movements of the two concertos. Both are judiciously timed, with the Andante of...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1989
Peñalosa Missa Nunca fue pena mayor
(Gilles) Binchois Ensemble | Dominique Vellard | Les Sacqueboutiers
Francisco de Peñalosa (c1470-1528) has suffered from the relative neglect of the Spanish polyphony composed just before the golden era...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2011
Coates Orchestral Works
John Wilson | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Marvellous as rediscovery of a wider range of British light orchestral composers has been, this CD makes one appreciate afresh...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2005
Satie Piano Works, Vol. 3
Anne Queffélec | Catherine Collard
Volume 1 of Anne Queffelec's Satie series, which has such familiar pieces as the Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes, came out four...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1993
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra | Yuri Simonov
Mendelssohn's Antigone music was written for a version commissioned for Berlin by Friedrich William IV. From a monarch so devoted...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1994
Moeran: Orchestral Works
Lydia Mordkovitch | Ulster Orchestra | Vernon Handley
I still have a clear recollection of hearing the Prom broadcast of the first performance of Moeran's Violin Concerto in...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
Chaminade Piano Works, Vol.2
Hyperion's first volume of Jacobs playing Cecile Chaminade's piano music (9/92) must have received a rapid endorsement from CD buyers,...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1994
French Violin and Piano Works
Alexander Lonquich | Frank Peter Zimmermann
By his own admission Poulenc was never very happy writing for solo strings, and in fact destroyed two violin sonatas...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1995
Mendelssohn Elijah Oratorio
Perhaps it’s the recording location or the fact that this choir spends most of its time singing at monastic services,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/2004
Dvorák Rusalka
Recorded in 1961, this excellent set replaced for many people its predecessor, made in the mid 1950s under Jaroslav Krombholc...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1996
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