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Byrd: Pavans and Galliards

Always one for a challenging sleeve-note, Davitt Moroney opens his comments here by stating that Byrd ''was the most universal...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/1986

Schubert Octet

Alan Sanders liked this performance when it came out four years ago, finding in it ''a pleasing warmth'' and, in...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1993

Debussy (La) Mer; (La) Boîte à joujoux; Préludes

Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic’s perfumed, pictorial 1964 recordings of Debussy’s Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune and La mer have...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2005

Schubert Symphony No 8. Beethoven Symphony No 8

These two popular symphonies are conducted by Dohnanyi with percipience and, especially in the Beethoven, with zest, and he always...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Glière/Mosolov Cello Concertos

Not as rewarding as you might think at first glance. That’s to say, if you had heard any of the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Elgar Organ Works

It is extraordinary that no major label has got Thomas Trotter, the greatest British organist of his generation, cuffed hands...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2007

Bach Orchestral Suites

This new recording of Bach's four Orchestral Suites has some attractive features. Vladimir Spivakov abandons his violin for the podium...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1991

C P E Bach 5 Flute Sonatas

There is no doubt where the chief novelty attraction of this disc lies, though I hope Nancy Hadden will forgive...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/1997

Dvorák & Tchaikovsky Works for Cello & Orchestra

It would be hard to find a more extreme contrast of interpretation in the Dvorak Cello Concerto than that between...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1990

Berkeley, M For You

The central character in Michael Berkeley’s For You, first performed in 2008, is a composer and conductor called Charles Frieth,...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2010

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