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Telemann Complete Overtures, Vol 1
Collegium Instrumentale Brugense | Patrick Peire
Telemann's orchestral suites (or overtures, as they are more correctly termed) represent the apogee of a genre which the German-speaking...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2007
Britten The Heart of the Matter
Barry Tuckwell | Neil Mackie | Peter Pears | Roger Vignoles
Most of the songs on this record are 'discards' from Britten cycles which have surfaced since his death and have...
Reviewed in issue 7/1987
Louis Kaufman - Violin Works
Louis Kaufman began recording in the 1920s (for Gennett and Edison) and until the 1950s was fairly frequently represented in...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1992
Robert & Clara Schumann Portraits
Famed above all as a delectable Mozart singer, Miah Persson has also made her mark as a thoughtful recitalist. As...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2011
Milhaud Symphonies Nos 1 & 4
Alun Francis | Basle Radio Symphony Orchestra
Darius Milhaud embarked on his delightful First Symphony in the autumn of 1939 following a commission from the Chicago Symphony...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1999
Bantock Sappho & Sapphic Poem
Julian Lloyd Webber | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Susan Bickley | Vernon Handley
This really is most welcome. In a fascinating booklet-essay, Lewis Foreman relates how, between the years 1900 and 1914, Bantock...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1997
Liszt Works for Violin and Piano Vol 2
Friedemann Eichhorn | Rolf-Dieter Arens | Uwe Stickert
Liszt’s relatively small output of chamber music is, like the majority of what he wrote, rarely programmed in the concert...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2011
John Tavener - A Portrait
Most ‘Portrait’/’Best of’ albums present a limited view of their subjects, drawing only on recordings made for the company issuing...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2004
Liszt Abroad
Andrew Kennedy | Iain Burnside | Matthew Rose | Rebecca Evans
“Liszt was here” is a badge of honour that could probably be claimed by most centres of civilisation in 19th-century...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2009
Turina Orchestral Works
Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra | Max Bragado Darman
Turina was a gentle man who, like Segovia, placed high value on beauty and clarity of thought, and responded to...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/2003
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