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Elgar Sea Pictures; The Music Makers
These idiomatic Elgar performances from Richard Hickox well merit their mid-price resuscitation within EMI’s British Composers series. Strong competition for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1996
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2. Vocalise
Neville Marriner | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
One look at the timings reveals all: at under 50 minutes Marriner makes just about every cut available to him,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1991
Gerhard Orchestral Works
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Geoffrey Tozer | Matthias Bamert
A year late for the centenary of his birth, but none the less welcome, come these three works of Roberto...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1997
Parry Chamber Works
Erich Gruenberg | Roger Vignoles
These works first appeared on LP six years ago and are now transferred successfully to CD. Balance between the two...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
Handel Rinaldo
Naxos’s first foray into Handel opera is the composer’s spectacular first London opera, performed at the Queen’s Theatre in 1711....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2006
Der Bote
‘Melancholy…nostalgic pictures…quiet meditation’ – all phrases which come into play in Alexei Lubimov’s foreword to the present collection‚ and all...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Bruckner String Quartet; Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Lothar Zagrosek
And still they come. Maybe your reviewer is suffering from an overdose of nocturnal transfiguration, but I find it harder...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1995
Responses to Ives
This fascinating collection was planned to mark the 50th anniversary of Charles Ives’s death in 2004 but it has been...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/2010
Wayne Marshall - French Organ Works
When I reviewed Wayne Marshall’s “The Virtuoso Organist” disc (EMI, 9/90 – nla) I was torn between open-mouthed admiration for...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1998
Schmidt - Brass Concertos
The most searching music here lies in the slow movements of the two concertos, for horn (1966) and tuba (1975),...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2000
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