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Pettersson Eight Barefoot Songs; Concertos Nos 1 & 2 for String Orchestra

It may surprise those familiar only with Pettersson’s large, obsessive symphonic edifices how natural a lyrical miniaturist he was but...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2009

Borodin Orchestral Works

We have long needed a first-rate set of the Borodin symphonies and it would be churlish to deny that Jarvi...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Hodgkinson Sketch of Now

Clarinettist and composer Tim Hodgkinson had a well spent misspent youth in Henry Cow, the radical rock band that fused...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2007

Rameau Arbaris & Dardanus Suites

Dardanus (1739) was Rameau's third excursion into tragedie-lyrique and Les boreades (1764), his last. Both works contain rich seams of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1987

Mozart/Salieri Concertos

In the introduction to the Third Edition (Oxford: 1936) of Percy Scholes's Radio Times Music Handbook, the author mentions his...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1992

Beethoven String Quartets, Vol 4

‘Art demands of us that we do not stand still.’ Beethoven’s own words as quoted by the Takács to remind...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2002

Giordano Andrea Chénier

I have never enjoyed Chenier as much as on this video, another of the 1950s films made expressly for Italian...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Schubert Recital

Simon Keenlyside is the best baritone singer and interpreter of Schubert this country has ever had and is fully the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994

Inner Song

This disc offers an absorbing tour around the musical world of Heinz Holliger, with first recordings of major works written...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1998

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

Russian showpieces like Scheherazade and Capriccio espagnol might seem unexpected repertory for Kurt Masur, by temperament clear-headed and objective rather...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2000

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