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Carter Chamber Music

Elliott Carter has penned a number of short ‘tribute’ pieces over the past two decades; their pithy concentration of means...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/2002

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Nikolai Golovanov was born in 1891, two years before Tchaikovsky’s death, and died in 1953, six months after the death...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2005

Blake Orchestral Works

The note with this most enjoyable CD begins by suggesting that the official recognition of Howard Blake, by his award...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1994

R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben; Four Last Songs

These CDs are the first issued in Jarvi's complete cycle of Strauss tone-poems with the SNO. Enterprisingly, Chandos are filling...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Ponchielli La Gioconda

This admirable performance sounds as immediate and forward as one would expect on a transfer to CD, and it emphasizes...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1985

Saint-Saëns piano concertos

This is very good value, with consistently fine playing and recording (a digital remastering of LPs), though the Third Concerto...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1986

Wagenaar, J Symphonic Poems

Johan Wagenaar was a Dutch composer roughly contemporary with Elgar: born in 1862, he died in 1941. He began his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2010

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 23 and 24

Some years ago Mitsuko Uchida confessed to me that she had mixed feelings about the complete cycle of the Mozart...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2009

Elgar Violin Concerto

Lasting a provocative 55'20'', this healthy-sounding, beautifully balanced 1977-8 Abbey Road production enshrines what must be about the most expansive...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

American Orchestral Works

Fashion has moved on since composers like Persichetti and Dello Joio established themselves with a kind of Hindemithian American neo-classicism....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1990

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