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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

Eric Coates conducts Eric Coates

The Classics for Pleasure two-LP compilation of Eric Coates pieces must represent one of the light-music bargains of this and...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1986

Dowland Complete Lute Works, Volume 3

The passing years have not slowed O’Dette’s fingers, still those of ‘the fastest lute in the west’, quick on the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1996

Bartók Works for Violin and Piano

These are admirably disciplined, unidiosyncratic accounts of two of the most demanding sonatas (for listeners as well as players) in...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

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