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Kilpinen Songs

The comparison between Kilpinen and Wolf, though repeatedly made, is one that will not travel the whole distance. Certainly their...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Brahms Symphony No.1

The way to Brahms's triumphal C major is a strenuous one for Giulini. Naturally there are moments in which to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1992

Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine

This is in some ways an oddly old-fashioned approach to the 1610 Vespers. With a substantial choir and sometimes highly...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1998

Hasse Reuiem. Miserere

In 1733 the new elector of Saxony, Friedrich August II, appointed Hasse his new Kapellmeister but allowed the famous opera...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2011

Nielsen Piano Works, Vol. 1

Peter Seivewright’s recital, the first in a complete survey of Nielsen’s piano music, is very well recorded and comes with...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 13/1997

Mozart (The) Freemason Music

Mozart became a freemason in 1784, and from that date onwards wrote a number of pieces that either were intended...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1993

Homelands (violin chamber works)

This was my first encounter with Albanian violinist Rudens Turku (who, according to the booklet, will be making his Carnegie...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2011

The Delius Collection

Geoffrey Toye (1889-1942) spent much of his working life in the theatre as a composer, conductor and administrator. A waltz...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Brahms Violin Concerto

I enjoyed Boris Belkin's account of the Brahms Concerto a great deal more than TH who made a direct comparison...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Bach Cantatas

My first encounter with Bach's poignant and deeply felt funeral music for Christiane Eberhardine, Queen of Poland and Eleetoral Prineess...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1988

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