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Schubert Sacred Choral Works

The strict authenticity of Schubert’s church music – more homophonic than polyphonic, more secular than religious – may be doubtful,...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 4/1998

Stanford Symphony No 3; Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands

A valuable addition to the catalogue on its initial appearance, Norman Del Mar's characteristically enterprising 1982 recording of Stanford's Irish...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 3

The chief attraction here, at least as far as budget-conscious collectors are concerned, is Taneyev’s ‘completion’ of the Andante and...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Bruckner Choral Works

Most music lovers, I'm sure, can remember at least one revelatory experience when coming across a work for the first...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1993

Entente Cordiale

ASV White Line has an enviable catalogue of lighter music; but this latest offering seems to me one of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/2003

Nielsen Symphonies 2 & 4

These premiere recordings have appeared on a two-LP set (EMI, 7/85), in harness with Erik Tuxen’s 78s of the Fifth...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1996

Mikroutsikos (The) Return of Helen

Thanos Mikroutsikos’s opera was first performed in Athens in 1993 and revived in January 1999, when this recording was made...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1999

Schoeck Orchestral Works

When I reviewed the Hoelscher version of the Schoeck Concerto, I expressed astonishment that a work of such rich lyricism...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1993

Clementi Complete Orchestral Works

Admired by Beethoven and famed throughout Europe as a composer, keyboard virtuoso and publisher, the Italian-born Englishman Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1993

Opera Duets

There's some good singing here, most of it by the tenor, but what moved me was the surge, the grace,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

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