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Schumann/Sibelius Violin Concertos

Schumann's Violin Concerto is still a vastly underrated work, but even so it is surprising that Telefunken's historically important first...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Delius; Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

There are a good many issues of British music these days and very welcome they are, though inevitably there is...

Reviewed in issue 1/1985

A Grand Duo-The Clarinet and Early Romantics

Schumann mourned Norbert Burgmuller’s early death in vivid terms, grieving that, “Fate, instead of decimating the mediocrities, who are encamped...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1998

Schubert Orchestrations by Berio & Joachim

Berio’s Rendering (1989) is a 35-minute orchestral work in which the composer enters into an extended dialogue with the sketches...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1997

Elgar Miniatures

The record to choose is the Nigel Kennedy, if only because it has the one major work of Elgar on...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Zemlinsky Vocal Works

Zemlinsky's Die Seejungfrau (''The mermaid'') is a three-movement symphonic fantasy based on the Hans Andersen story. It was first performed...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1987

Delius; Gurney Songs

Gentlest, most delicate and restrained of English song-writers, Ivor Gurney surely finds his ideal interpreters here. It is difficult to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

Leonard Warren Early Recordings

This is an unusual and important issue of material deriving from a strange source: in 1940 the New York Post...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Amour Cruel

‘Amour cruel’ provides a delightful glimpse of private music­making in mid­17th­century Paris. Half of this CD is devoted to six...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Gustav Mahler - Detaching from the World

‘Perhaps the dramatic complexity of the 19th century as it draws to a close, with all its roots, veins and...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2006

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