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Mahler Symphony No 1

It is now more that a year since I exhausted most of my superlatives on a review of Bernstein's Concertgebouw...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1991

Britten Violin Concerto; Walton Viola Concerto

When artists of the stature of Vengerov and Rostropovich tackle English music it is often a revelation, and here you...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2003

Gregson-Williams (The) Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

For this second Narnia film, the composer has drawn on themes from the earlier one, The Lion, the Witch and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2008

Bacewicz Works for Violin and Piano

Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-69) left a sizeable body of music including seven each of violin concertos and string quartets. This miscellany...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2005

Beethoven Orchestral Works

It is probably not by chance that this new period instrument performance of the Eroica Symphony is prefaced by the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1989

Dvorák Symphony No 9, 'From the New World'; Symphonic Variations

Marin Alsop, having moved into main-line repertoire with a highly praised set of the four Brahms symphonies, now undertakes what...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2008

Newband Dance of the Seven Veils

Now firmly into the period of Bach’s Leipzig cantatas, Bach Collegium Japan tackles three pieces belonging to the composer’s first...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1999

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 1-3

Giving symphonic weight to Tchaikovsky symphonies by bringing them close to the central German tradition can produce illuminating results. Having...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1990

Chopin Nocturnes

How do you like your Chopin Nocturnes? Individually characterised as separate miniature tone-poems or as a collection of homogeneous reflective...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2010

Crumb Star Child. Mundus Canis. Songs.

The major event here has to be the first recording of Star-Child, described as a 'Parable for Soprano, Antiphonal Children's...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2000

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