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Beethoven Symphony No 9, 'Choral'
Klaus Tennstedt’s expansive way with the Choral Symphony was definitely not what the doctor was regularly ordering in 1992. By...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2009
Glazunov Symphonies Nos 1 and 6
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Tadaaki Otaka
Symphonies by teenagers generally get put away in a box and quietly forgotten. Not Glazunov’s First, however. Quite deservedly, the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2003
Debussy: Orchestral Works, Vol.3
A warm greeting for fine and competitively priced reissues. The original set from which the two CDs are taken occupied...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1989
Searle Symphony No 2; Still Symphony Nos 3 & 4
Encountering Humphrey Searle’s music is like stumbling across a Wyndham Lewis painting in a British art gallery among all those...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2009
Stempenyu-The Violin Music of Joseph Achron
The Shorter English Dictionary describes Yiddish as “mainly... German with [an] admixture of Balto-Slavic or Hebrew...”. The definition might just...
Reviewed in issue 4/1997
Mahler Symphony No 1 (with Blumine)
When Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic played this symphony at the 1987 Proms, it sounded over the air a hard-driven...
Reviewed in issue 1/1988
Schmidt Chamber music
Alfred Prinz | Jörg Demus | Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet
The Piano Quintet was recorded in the mid-1970s by the Vienna Philharmonia Quartet with Eduard Mrazek (Decca SDD491, 5/76—nla) with...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1986
Brahms: Works for Chorus and Orchestra
Brahms was always a frevent patriot. He revelled in the fall of Paris in 1871, rejoiced in Bismark's appointment to...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1987
Wilhelm Kempff - Rare Recordings, 1936-1945
Here is musical treasure confirming that Wilhelm Kempff was a unique artist, whose miraculous pianism expressed a poetry as deep...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2001
Brahms: Piano Works
The E flat minor Scherzo and the Op. 10 Ballades were all composed before Brahms was 21, in days when...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1985
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