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New Year's Concert - 1992

In every respect, this is superb: a 'must'. I recently listened to DG's historic issue of VPO Johann Strauss ((CD)...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992

Schoenberg Choral Works

It’s rare for conductors to provide sleeve-notes, rarer still for them to use the opportunity to commend their interpretation to...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2008

Sacred Baroque Vocal Works

Here's a thoughtful and satisfying piece of programme planning of a kind that is currently rather unfashionable. Better still, the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1987

Dvorák Piano Quintets

This is really a record for specialist collectors of two kinds. Lovers of Dvorak's music will not want to miss...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985

Donizetti Don Pasquale

When this came out, in 1956, both of our great double-barrels were turned upon it, Philip Hope-Wallace allowing it house-room...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Bartók String Quartets 1-6

One of the many rewarding aspects of Bartok’s quartets is their responsiveness to differing interpretative options. Sifting and sampling through...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2000

Anderson Alhambra Fantasy

For more than a decade British composer Julian Anderson (b1967) has been consolidating his reputation as a leading talent. This...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2006

Kodaly Missa Brevis; Psalm 121; Psalm 114.

The singing of the Flemish Radio Choir is pure and precise, Peter Thomas’s organ accompaniment to the Missa brevis is...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/2006

Burnt Sienna

Carl Herring graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with first-class honours in 2003, and is a recipient of both...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2008

Coates, G Orchestral Works

I was impressed by my first encounter with Gloria Coates’s highly individual music (CPO, 3/97) and I remain so, though...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1999

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