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Berlioz Orchestral works
Though reissued at budget price, neither of these versions of the Symphonie fantastique really provides the value that is to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1990
Alkan Chamber Works
Alkan Trio | Bernhard Schwarz | Kolja Lessing | Rainer M. Klaas
The reasonably healthy listing of discs under Alkan's entry in the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue is sufficient proof that his...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1993
Ravel Bolero
Anima Eterna Orchestra | Claire Chevallier | Jos van Immerseel
When Maurice Ravel’s orchestrations benefit so clearly from being played on modern instruments (see page 71), it may seem odd...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2006
Mahler Symphony No 10 (ed Cooke)
It has become harder for interpreters to make their mark in what has become standard fare, yet both these conductors...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2006
Beethoven Missa Solemnis. Mozart Mass in C minor
Robert Shaw won the Gramophone Award for the best choral recording of the year with his performance of Verdi's Requiem...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1988
Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae (1589)
Edward Higginbottom | New College Choir, Oxford
This pioneering record, first issued in 1984, champions some of Byrd's most exquisitely formed and passionate works. At the time...
Reviewed in issue 12/1991
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
If I am not mistaken this is Stephen Kovacevich's first solo recording for six or seven years, and it demonstrates...
Reviewed in issue 10/1992
Mozart Mass, K427
A modern version of the great C minor Mass for around a fiver may seem a tempting proposition, especially given...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1999
Bax Works for Viola and Piano
Julian Rolton | Laurence Jackson | Martin Outram
No sooner had I welcomed Doris Lederer’s supple account of Bax’s Viola Sonata with Jane Coop than along comes a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2007
20th Century Percussion Works
Amadinda Percussion Group | Zoltán Kocsis
Of the two audiences that this disc is aimed at—percussion fans and John Cage enthusiasts—it will be the latter who,...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1989
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