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Brahms Symphony No 1; Haydn (St Antony) Variations
The decision to begin this disc with Iván Fischer’s own arrangement for strings of Brahms’s soulful Hungarian Dance in D...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2009
T. Wishart Vox 1-6
Vox consists of six pieces composed over an eight year period. Like Wishart's Anticredos (1980), which I found ''extraordinarily diverse...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1990
Dvorak Symphony No.9; Hindemith Klaviermusik mit Orchester
Christoph Eschenbach | Curtis Symphony Orchestra | Leon Fleisher
This is one of the oddest couplings I can remember, one that stems from having these items recorded live in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2009
Duphly Harpsichord Works
Duphly's music belongs to the final stage of the French harpsichord school. Between 1744 and 1768 he published four volumes...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987
Bax Orchestral Works
Bryden Thomson | London Philharmonic Orchestra
The epilogue to Bax's Third Symphony is one of the most memorable and beautiful things he ever wrote: a gravely...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1986
Mahler Symphony No 5
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan
This distinguished Karajan recording has already been available at bargain price so its appearance in mid-price Originals livery comes as...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
Suk Piano Quartet; Piano Quintet
Completed around 1891, Josef Suk’s youthful Piano Quartet bears an inscription to his teacher and future father-in-law Dvoák, and it’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2004
Palestrina: Choral works
Georg Ratzinger | Regensburg Cathedral Choir
It says something about the limited horizons of both choirmasters and producers that I now have five different recordings of...
Reviewed in issue 1/1987
Beethoven (The) Late Quartets
Late Beethoven is all about contrasts: prayer and play, structural logic and emotional candour, relative convention and daring. Wherever you...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2005
Noel Coward Album
Ian Bostridge | Jeffrey Tate | Sophie Daneman
Every month seems to bring another significant CD from Bostridge. This one takes him into new territory – the songs...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002
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