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Górecki Vocal and Orchestral Works
After the ubiquitous Third Symphony the Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka (“Little Requiem for a Polka”) is fast becoming one...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 9/1996
Rossini La Pietra del Paragone
Here is a CD reissue of a little known LP recording (never generally obtainable in the UK) that should gladden...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992
Matthews, D From Sea to Sky
The Proms prospectus hailed David Matthews as “the 21st century’s outstanding heir to the great tradition of English symphonism”. The...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2007
Mozart Quintets
The first thing that strikes one about this Mozart disc from America is the sound of the period string instruments...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993
Connesson Cosmic Trilogy
Eric Le Sage | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Stéphane Denève
There’s a new generation of French composers we know little about on this side of the channel, names like Bacri,...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2010
Dennis O'Neill Sings
Andrew Greenwood | BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra | Dennis O'Neill
Delight, disappointment, dismay: barometrical readings in brief. The delight followed discovery of the recital's existence, for Dennis O'Neill is not...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
Elgar-Payne Symphony 3
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Paul Daniel
How thrillingly urgent Elgar's unforgettably gaunt introductory bars sound here - a magnificent launch-pad for an interpretation of unswerving dedication,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2000
Bach (The) Well Tempered Klavier, Book 1
‘The Old Testament of Piano Music’ (von Bülow) was a decisive work in our adoption of a 12-tone chromatic system....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2004
Lawrence Tibbett sings Opera Arias
Tibbett owned one of the most sheerly beautiful baritone voices of the century and he used it, at the peak...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1990
Bartók/Ellington Violin Works
Alec Dankworth | Nigel Kennedy
Both these works date from the 1940s; both, as Nigel Kennedy points out in his refreshingly direct notes, are inspired...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1986
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