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English Bassoon Concertos

The three concerto/concertinos by John Addison‚ Eric Fogg‚ and Peter Hope are all most engaging‚ and would grace any concert...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Henze Symphony No 9

This is not the Berlin Radio Choir’s first outing in Henze’s Ninth Symphony; they gave the world premiere in 1997...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2009

R. Strauss Salome

To choose between these two performances is almost impossible. While not retracting a word from my praise for the Solti/Decca...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1987

Schubert Piano Works

Recent issues show pianists searching for the instrument best suited to Schubert’s characteristic musical language and subtly coloured harmonic vocabulary....

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Works for String Orchestra

The lives of Franz Waxman, Miklos Rozsa and Bernard Herrmann are interwoven, not only because of their work on the...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1993

A Berlioz Collection

This is a timely reminder of the high standards applying in so many respects in the late 1960s. The LSO...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Paata Burchuladze sings Mussorgsky and Verdi

Greeting the appearance on record of this very fine voice, John Steane was so bowled over by its qualities, if...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Trumpet Concertos

The basic drawback to this collection is the recording itself, made in a very resonant acoustic with the trumpet realistically...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1986

Emma Kirkby sings Mrs Arne

Emma Kirkby's voice has no longer the ingenue air, the charmingly demure quality through which a hint of passion enticingly...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1993

The Mistress Settings of Abraham Cowley's Poems

Abraham Cowley's The Mistress was first published in London in 1647 and was the most successful collection of love poems...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/1995

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