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Elgar Solo Piano Works Vol 2
David Owen Norris has made a terrific job of transcribing the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, even to the extent of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2009
Charles Mackerras - 80th Birthday Portrait
Here’s a desirable compendium of material spanning nearly three decades to celebrate Sir Charles Mackerras’s 80th birthday. To the best...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2005
Gluck Armide
‘Perhaps the best of all my works’, said Gluck of his Armide. But this, the fifth of his seven ‘reform...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1999
Gluck Orphée et Eurydice
The text here is one of the compromises between French and Italian, with an Orpheus at contralto pitch (in place...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1998
Borodin Prince Igor
Curious things happen long before the official surprises of this vitally fresh Prince Igor, not least in the Overture, where...
Reviewed in issue 4/1995
Piano Rarities
From 1989 to the present day Peter Froundijan’s Schloss vor Husum Festival has challenged convention and celebrated the unique richness...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1997
British Music for Brass
James Stobart | London Collegiate Brass
Despite repeated objurgations by the late William chislett, I never became a devotee of brass-band music, military, industrial or symphonic....
Reviewed in issue 3/1986
Elgar Orchestral Works
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Yondani Butt
This is a good Elgar record. Yondani Butt is new to me. Born in Macao, he is now a citizen...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
Gershwin Rhapsody
Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Michael Feinstein
Concert pianist meets cabaret star sounds like an idea conceived by an eager A&R executive in search of a fresh...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2024
Violonchelo Español
(I) Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky
The alternative Spanish spelling of ‘violonchelo’ signals an attractive sequence of musical lollipops with a strong Spanish flavour. This is...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2006
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