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Chadwick Aphrodite; Elegy; Suite symphonique
Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra | José Serebrier
This is a landmark for Chadwick, since all three works are virtually unknown and these are first recordings. The Suite...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1997
Sibelius Incidental Music
Ari Rasilainen | Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Over the last 10 or 15 years Sibelius’s extensive output of incidental music has become available in a bewildering array...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2002
Rott Symphony in E
Cincinnati Philharmonia | Gerhard Samuel
A symphony from 1880 lasting almost an hour by a student who died young—a work Mahler admired but regarded as...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1989
Mascagni I Rantzau
I Rantzau was Mascagni's third opera, produced in 1892, two years after Cavalleria rusticana. It was widely performed and successful...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995
Jongen Cello Concerto; Impressions d' Ardennes Op 44
Arpea Ensemble | Belgian National Orchestra | Marie Hallynck | Roman Hofman
On these two discs less is more. Which means, unfortunately, that more is less. Letting young composers loose on a...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 5/2003
Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri
Dieterich Buxtehude’s remarkable cycle of seven vocal concertos (short, condensed cantatas) sets a medieval Latin poem in both a mystical...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2007
Balakirev Mazurkas & Scherzi
When St Petersburg could, in John Field's day, become nicknamed 'Pianopolis', it seems surprising that a richer tradition of Russian...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1987
Liszt Pièces Tardives
Jos van Immerseel | Sergei Istomin
This disc of late pieces provides a dour and destabilising experience. Here, Liszt’s ‘exuberance of heart’ gives way to ‘bitterness...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2005
Boyce Ode for St Cecilia's Day
William Boyce was a prolific composer of odes. He wrote more than 50, most of them for the court, when...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2000
Tchaikovsky Mazeppa
Call it cynicism or simply a composer's desire to reach a wider public at a time before film scores brought...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
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