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Respighi Roman Trilogy; (Il) tramonto

What more appropriate orchestra to record the three Roman colour-scapes of Respighi than Rome’s greatest orchestra under its music director,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2007

Schumann Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

All this talk of Schumann’s stodgy orchestral writing…Rubbish, I say! Evidence for the defence is simple: keep the orchestra slim...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2007

Nyman The Man who mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a chamber opera based on Oliver Sacks's book of the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Trumpet Concertos

Hakan Hardenberger's second major collection of trumpet concertos for Philips suffers from one drawback only: the two best concertos for...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991

Baltic Voices 3

Paul Hillier continues his top-class ‘Baltic Voices’ series with a compilation that embraces Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland. It...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2006

Marcello Sonatas, Op 2

To most, the composer Benedetto Marcello - a Venetian contemporary of Vivaldi - will probably be more a name than...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2006

Fern Hill-American Choral Music

These Kansas City performers have really taken John Corigliano’s setting of Dylan Thomas’s poem, Fern Hill, to heart by naming...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1997

Songs of Desire

The trouble with confining this selection to so-called ''Songs of Desire'' is that it limits the range, more than such...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1995

Brahms Symphonies 1-4

Recorded live in Zurich’s Tonhalle in April 2010, this is David Zinman’s first such project during his 16-year tenure at...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2011

Mozart Flute Quartets

It's unfortunate that Mozart let it be known that he had no liking for the flute, for this has led...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1984

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