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Beethoven Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky Sérénade Mélancolique
Adrian Boult | Menuhin Festival Orchestra | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Yehudi Menuhin
How shocking that this inspired reading of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, with Menuhin directing his own Festival Orchestra, should have...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003
Rutter: Sacred Music
(Philip) Jones Brass Ensemble | Cambridge Singers | City of London Sinfonia | John Rutter
The Gloria is an absolutely splendid piece: its initial impact is sustained with electrifying effect throughout the ''Gloria'' proper (not...
Reviewed in issue 6/1987
Romantic Organ Music, Vol.2
The demand of collectors for organ music and for the infinitely varied sounds of this protean instrument has had a...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1988
Millöcker Gasparone
To listen to these five CD reissues of classic Viennese operettas is to revisit what seems like a golden age,...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/1995
Handel Concerti grossi, Op 3
(Les) Musiciens du Louvre | Marc Minkowski
Handel's six Concerto grossi, Op. 3 are among the most colourfully varied ever to have been collected under a single...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1994
Honegger: Orchestral Works
Honegger's wartime symphony for strings with trumpet obbligato is the most recorded of his five symphonies, and is one of...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1988
Boccherini Symphonies
Chiara Banchini | Ensemble 415
Essentially the chamber musician, the master of the refined and the exquisite, Boccherini often seems to be out of his...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1989
Messiaen Vision de L'Amen
Alexandre Rabinovitch | Martha Argerich
I wrote of the Lonskov/Llambias Visions de l'Amen (Kontrapunkt/Harmonia Mundi) that it was ''very much better than a stopgap''. But...
Reviewed in issue 12/1990
Orchestral music from the opera
Silvio Varviso | Staatskapelle Dresden
The very agreeable ambience of this recording makes for pleasant, undemanding listening. The highlight is the ''Dance of the hours''...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1985
Charpentier, M-A Sacred Music, Vol 4
(Le) Concert Spirituel Orchestra | (Le) Concert Spirituel Vocal Ensemble | Hervé Niquet
This is the fourth volume of Charpentier sacred music to have come from Le Concert Spirituel, and appears after a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2000
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