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D'Indy Symphony on a French Mountain Air; Saint-Saens Symphony No 2

Two works of ripe Romantic élan here frame a relatively early and seldom-performed symphony by Saint-Saëns, all of them played...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2011

Liszt Faust Symphony

It is good to see the return of one of Beecham's very finest interpretations, and on CD in a transfer...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1988

Arnaud Orchestral Works

Make no mistake, BIS’s Skalkottas cycle is among the most stimulating recording projects of recent years, and the present disc...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2000

Gershwin An American in Paris

This is a classic selection of Gershwin where the longest piece is the 25­minute Porgy and Bess suite in the...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Williams J Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of

More close encounters with John Williams away from the silver screen. This time his focus is the cello – not...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Mendelssohn Piano Works For Four Hands

Why record, say, the piano duet version of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, even in the composer’s own reduction? Why...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 13/2009

Brahms/Schumann Piano Quintets

The aggressively snatched opening challenge of the Schumann Quintet made me fear the worst. But though the tempo for this...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1994

Telemann String Concertos, Vol 2

With works and performances of such bristling vitality and colour‚ no excuses need be made for Telemann. Volume 1 (11/00)...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Bruckner Symphony No 7

The sound on the remastered version of Klemperer's 1962 recording of Bruckner's Seventh is so good that I removed it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1988

Liszt Études d'exécution, S.139

As JOC has observed, ''despite the title, Liszt's 12 Transcendental Studies are not all bravura display''. True, but unless that...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

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