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BRITTEN Rarities

The Decca Eloquence label has become a wonderful source of welcome rarities, thanks to the initiative and deep knowledge of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW/2012

BRITTEN My Beloved is Mine

Although On This Island started out as a work for soprano, it has increasingly been colonised by tenors (the work...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW/2012

BARBER An American Romantic

This is very nearly the complete choral music of Barber, apart from extracts from his operas: with a generous duration...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: AW/2012

JS BACH Secular Cantatas, Vol 2

During the long and nearly completed journey recording all the sacred cantatas, Masaaki Suzuki has only once dipped into the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW/2012

JS BACH Cantatas BWV35 & 170

Leading countertenors of their generation have understandably felt compelled to record at least two of the four solo alto cantatas...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW/2012

Lieux retrouvés – Music for cello & piano

This blissfully unhackneyed and brilliantly executed recital takes memory in all its facets as its theme, and the highlight is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW/2012

WEBER Wind Concertos

Weber’s clarinet (and horn and bassoon) concertos seem to have joined the ‘waiting for a London bus’ analogy this year....

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2012

TELEMANN Complete Violin Concertos Vol 4

Billed as Vol 4 of a complete edition of Telemann’s violin concertos, the three works recorded here are hybrids; in...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: AW/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 1. Snow Maiden (excerpts)

The Stereo Record Guide commented in 1960: ‘Not so long ago it was considered fashionable even when writing literature of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: AW/2012

SVENDSEN Orchestral Works, Vol 2

Completed just as his friend Wagner was starting rehearsals for the first Ring in Bayreuth, Svendsen’s Second Symphony is a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2012

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