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Sibelius Symphony No 4; Finlandia; Pohjola's Daughter
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra | Leif Segerstam | Polytech Male Choir
Leif Segerstam’s Sibelius symphony cycle for Ondine concludes with this meticulously observant, keenly pondered reading of the Fourth. The Finnish...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2005
Schubert Mass No 6
Long the Cinderella work of Schubert’s miraculous final year, the E flat Mass is now acknowledged as a powerful masterpiece...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2008
Conyngham Orchestral Works
Geoffrey Simon | London Symphony Orchestra | Robert Davidovici | Tamás Ungár
Here are two large-scale works from either end of the 1980s by the Australian composer Barry Conyngham (b. 1944), performed...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1994
Paganini Violin Concerto No. 4
Gidon Kremer | Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Paganini closely guarded the music of his concertos (not wanting them to fall into the hands of rivals) and the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1997
Dusapin - (7) Solos for Orchestra
Liège Philharmonic Orchestra | Pascal Rophé
These seven separate works, composed between 1992 and 2009, sound as if they are hypnotised by the paradox of their...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2010
Serenades for String Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green | London Chamber Orchestra
The sound of the London Chamber Orchestra here is so immediate that one almost smells the rosin from their bows...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990
Bach Lute Works (Original version for 10-string guitar)
Whether or not the description of these as ‘lute’ works is justified has long been a matter for debate, and...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2000
Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande
This Lyon Opera staging was presented at the 1985 Edinburgh Festival, when Gardiner told me that he had spotted 470...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1996
Monteverdi Balli and Dramatic Madrigals
(The) Parley of Instruments | Peter Holman | Red Byrd
The four works on this disc come from Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals—his Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (''Warlike and Amorous...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1992
Orchestral works by Holst and Warlock
Adrian Boult | London Philharmonic Orchestra | London Symphony Orchestra | Nicholas Braithwaite
Holst placed his Suite de ballet firmly among his self-styled ''Early Horrors'', and Imogen Holst duly flinched at ''the banality...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1985
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