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Svendsen Symphonies 1 & 2

It is good to see these inspired symphonies coming back into their own: they are a further corrective to the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Lee Korean Piano Music

Young Jo Lee was born in Korea in 1943. After studying at Yonsei University in Seoul he continued his composition...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 1/2001

Huber Erniedrigt; Geknechtet; Verlassen; Verachtet

File Swiss composer Klaus Huber’s work for voices, chorus, orchestra and tape under Nono’s Il canto sospeso and Zimmermann’s Requiem...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2010

Bach: Christmas Oratorio

Munchinger's recording was outstanding in its time, as good a performance as traditional (but not dry) Bach scholarship offered, dramatic...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1985

Cavalieri Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo

Behind every silver lining, there’s a cloud. Or several. Behind the pleasure of welcoming this new recording of Emilio de’...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/1999

Ligeti Choral Works

This welcome addition to the catalogue brings together (with the exception of a few early unpublished works) all of Ligeti's...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 10/1991

19th Century works for Piano and Orchestra

With a name (new to me) suggesting hot Latin-American or Spanish blood, it is perhaps not surprising to find Osorio...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1985

Walzer Daniel Levy

This is an interesting issue, albeit of an oddly variable quality. Listening to 70 minutes of waltzes can potentially be...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 4/1997

Beethoven: Early String Quartets

While alternative versions abound on LP, the Alban Berg Quartet have the field to themselves in Op. 18 on CD....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1985

Verdi Rigoletto

Following close on the issue of the ENO Othello (HMV SLS1436053, 3/84), we now have the same company's Rigoletto, though...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1984

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