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Stanley Organ Voluntaries
The Thomas Thamar organ in Framlingham, formerly in Pembroke College, Cambridge, was built in 1674, and all the Great registers...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1983
Solo - Yo-Yo Ma
This delightful release finds Stephen Hough revisiting Virgin territory. A bad pun, yes, but not an oxymoron! Hough recorded two...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/1999
Reger Violin Sonata; (3) Viola Suites
The sheer variety of Reger’s music could hardly be better suggested than by this pair of discs. Reger the wild...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Ginastera Estancia; Panambí
Gisèle Ben-Dor | London Symphony Orchestra | Luis Gaeta
It was a characteristically bold step by the 21-year-old Ginastera to make his Op 1 an ambitiously scored orchestral ballet...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2007
Ford A Icarus
Andrew Ford‚ born in Britain 45 years ago but resident in Australia for the last 20‚ is a composer who...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2002
Chopin Piano Works
Ever since first encountering Gavrilov at the Touraine Music Festival in the mid-1970s, I've thought him a player of infinite...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1992
Kraus, J M Aeneas in Carthage orchestral highlights
Jyväskylä Sinfonia | Patrick Gallois
“A titanic composition by the standards of any period of musical history,” proclaims Bertil van Boer in his informative booklet-note,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2010
Smetana Piano Works, Vol II
We are so used to hearing the handful of really familiar Smetana works – The Bartered Bride, the string quartet...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2007
Lloyd, G Piano Concerto No 3
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | George Lloyd | Kathryn Stott
There was an old schoolboy conundrum: when is a concerto not a concerto? The answer, then concerned itself with Bach....
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
Berlioz Les Troyens
It is a tribute to the quality of Sir Colin Davis's pioneering set of Berlioz's epic opera that it has...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1994
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