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Børresen; Glass, L; Henriques Romantic Violin Sonatas
Arne Balk-Møller | Christina Bjørkøe
Hakon Børresen is one of a clutch of Danish composers who cultivated a mid-19th-century idiom well into the 20th. That...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2006
Glazunov Symphony No 8, Op 83; Cantata, Op 65; Lyric Poem, Op 12
Glazunov’s Symphony No 8 is one of his very finest. It opens confidently and lyrically on the horns, conductor Valéry...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2003
Mozart & Schumann Chamber Works
Budapest Quartet | Claudio Arrau | Clifford Curzon
These pleasant, but somewhat trivial and meandering works from Mendelssohn's adolescence demand little of performers other than a certain rhythmic...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
Mahler Symphony No 1
Christoph Eschenbach | Houston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach’s Mahler may be unfamiliar to record collectors. His approach is fundamentally objective, confident, sharp-edged, and analytical, and yet...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Janácek Sonata 1.X.1905
Quite a few pianists have now recorded a Janácek recital similar in content to this one, notably Rudolf Firkusny and...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2010
Schippers conducts Barber etc
Columbia Symphony Orchestra | Martina Arroyo | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Schippers
This collection is intended more as a memorial to the remarkable gifts of Thomas Schippers (1930-77) than as an anomalously...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1997
Handel Admeto
A warm welcome to this reissue and to the first Admeto on CD. It’s surprising it has been so long...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1999
Schütz Magnificat d'Uppsala, SWV468
(La) Chapelle Rhénane | Benoît Haller
The French label K617 is evidently not aiming much at the English-speaking market: it took me a while to track...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2007
Sibelius Orchestral Works
It is striking how the Sibelius Violin Concerto has inspired many young artists to give outstanding performances on disc, and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1996
Philidor Suites for Flute and Basso Continuo
Hans Olav Gorset | Paolo Pandolfo | Rolf Lislevand
Pierre Danican Philidor is a relative rarity in the current CD catalogues, although, as a member of one of the...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 4/2000
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