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Koechlin (Les) Heures Persanes

Les Heures Persanes (‘The Persian hours’) evokes a two-month journey through Persia in 1900, but not by Koechlin (who never...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2003

Nielsen: Orchestral works

Older collectors will recall the impact that these records made on their appearance in the late 1940s—and what marvellous and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1985

Biber Arminio

Record companies should be applauded for their valuable contributions to a growing interest among performers and audiences in the music...

Reviewed in issue 6/1995

Strauss, R Don Juan; Burleske; Sinfonia Domestica

“One of my chief pleasures is to hear Till and Don Juan on the wireless, conducted by yourself. What a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2009

Mahler Symphony No 3. Klagende Lied

Of these four CD transfers, the finest in terms of recorded quality are unquestionably Abbado's and Tilson Thomas's Abbado's LP...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Verdi Requiem

Both these performances are central to any discography of the Requiem. Toscanini and Serafin had the work in their bones....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1995

Music for the Duke of Lerma

Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, was the powerful favourite, or valido, of Philip III of Spain,...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 1/2003

Kancheli Symphonies Nos 1, 4 and 5

The Olympia coupling of Kancheli’s Fourth and Fifth was one of my specially selected recordings in my survey of symphonies...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Pettersson Complete Songs

All but two of Allan Pettersson’s 17 symphonies have been recorded, and some are available in more than one version....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1998

Wagner Götterdämmerung

Listen through pretty atrocious sound (including a few dropouts) and you can feel yourself present, in the case of Gotterdammerung,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999

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