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French Choral and Organ Works

Vierne's Messe solennelle is a magnificent work full of spine-tingling harmonies and sumptuous melodies. The luxuriance of this score is...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1989

Myaskovsky Symphonies Nos 23 & 24

Both these recordings are contained in the rival boxed intégrale – and now Gramophone Award-winner – of 16 CDs from...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2008

Rorem Piano Concerto No 2; Cello Concerto

How remarkable that two such delectable concertos should be receiving their world premieres on disc. Unapologetically romantic and accessible, those...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2007

Tchaikovsky The Seasons; Borodin Petite Suite

Solo piano music, we are often told, was not Tchaikovsky’s happiest medium, in terms of either musical or idiomatic inventiveness....

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1996

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

Deryck Cooke declared, famously, when this set appeared on LP that it was the ''greatest gramophone event of the century''....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1991

Barber; Ives Piano Sonatas

This superb recital of two sharply, indeed mischievously, opposed American sonatas follows Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s celebrated Warner Classics disc of the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2004

Smetana Má Vlast

Performed for Czech Radio over five separate days in June 1973 this cleanly-recorded Ma vlast is among the noblest now...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

Vivaldi (The) Four Seasons

Rather against my will, and indeed against my better judgement, I found myself guiltily enjoying this recording. There’s so much...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2005

Twentieth Century Guitar Works

The record is distinguished by absolutely splendid guitar-playing (in the booklet's photograph Stein-Erik Olsen looks as if he actually enjoys...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Cherubini Coronation Mass

Cherubini was born (in Florence) in 1760, four years after Mozart, and lived until 1842 when Beethoven had been in...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 12/1985

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