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Works for Cello and Orchestra

I am an admirer of the Mercury legacy, but this is one record I am unable to warm to. The...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991

Mahler Symphony 9 & Kindertotenlieder

While it’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that the slick virtuosity of latter­day Mahler performance has been bought at too...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Mahler Symphony No 2

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony was once referred to by one of my more barbarous audio colleagues (not of Gramophone) as ''obviously...

Reviewed in issue 4/1984

Gernsheim Symphonies Nos 1 - 4

‘Eminent player, composer and conductor’, says Grove 4. ‘He was at his best in chamber music, notably the Piano Quintet...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Charpentier Te Deum & Missa Assumpta est Maria

This is an attractive Charpentier package, with Ivor Bolton and his London-based group coupling the composer’s best-known sacred piece with...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1996

Rossini Songs

‘Visceral’ is the word that most immediately comes to mind whenever I think of Rockwell Blake. His critics may bitch...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1996

Goossens; Hurlstone; Turnbull Violin Sonatas

There are not perhaps a great many really familiar English violin sonatas, but those available on record are of quality,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2004

Vaughan Williams Songs with orchestra

Vaughan Williams's evocative and haunting settings of six poems from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, entitled On Wenlock Edge...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 7/1987

Reger/Schumann Piano Music

Every conscientious reviewer is embarrassed when he has given what he thought was undoubtedly a safe recommendation and another performance...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, 'Emperor'; Piano Sonata No 28

Subtitle this recording “A Tale of Two Emperors” or “Opposites Distract”. Listeners accustomed to lyrical nuance and tonal majesty in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2007

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