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Egk/Mozart Wind Music

If you have a particular interest in the more obscure byways of neo-classicism the music of Werner Egk (1901-83) might...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991

Music for Basset Horns

The New World Basset Horn Trio—a German, a Netherlander and an American—are a newish group who play on replicas of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1990

Fux Overtures

Fux, chiefly remembered by music students for his theoretical treatise Gradus ad Parnassum, was Kapellmeister at the Vienna Court for...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1996

Haydn String Quartets, Op 1 Nos 1-6

The history of the string quartet in effect began with these cheerful, compact Divertimenti a quattro, as the composer titled...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1997

Debussy Preludes

Any sort of comparison with Michelangeli is likely to be feared by most pianists, but, as his other recordings would...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5. The Storm

The Storm, not to be confused with The Tempest, is one of Tchaikovsky's earliest surviving orchestral works—summer holiday homework in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1994

Tye/Tallis/Byrd Masses

This is a generous mid-price reissue of three splendidly contrasted Tudor Masses: Tye’s brilliantly scored, but concisely expressed Euge Bone...

Reviewed by prussell in issue: 4/1996

Delius Choral Works

Strange but true: this is only the third commercial recording of A Mass of Life (‘Essential Delius’ if ever there...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring; Petrushka

I was expecting Temirkanov, with his reputation as a showman of the rostrum, to give excitingly exaggerated accounts of these...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990

Pärt & Kancheli Orchestral Works

Here is a natural and effective coupling of spiritual-minimalist pieces from the Baltic and the Balkans; and how good it...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

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