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Rubbra String Quartets Nos 1, 3 & 4

This disc completes the Naxos cycle of the four quartets of Edmund Rubbra. They make an exceptionally well co-ordinated group,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2011

Wagner Opera excerpts

The Walkure Act 1 excerpt was not published until several years after Toscanini's death, when it was partnered by Gotterdammerung...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Blow Venus and Adonis

Charles Medlam is clearly on to greater things. During the last decade his informed playing and direction of London Baroque...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Langgaard Antichrist

After Antikrist (1921-3) was initially rejected by the Copenhagen Royal Theatre, Langgaard extensively revised it (1926-30) - with a new...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2000

R. Strauss Orchestral Works

Just how masterly Szell was as a Straussian is demonstrated in all three of these items, recorded in 1960 and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1998

Alfred Piccaver (1884-1958)

Piccaver's 1912 account of Romeo's aria (one of his earliest discs) from Romeo et Juliet, included on this reissue, is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

It is, surprisingly, 19 years since we had a new recording (Solti's) of Wagner's great comedy, although in the meantime...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994

The 20th Century Cello, Volume 2

For his latest ‘twentieth-century-only’ recital, the American cellist Matt Haimovitz serves up a distinctively mixed bag: four American works alongside...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1997

Higdon Concerto for Orchestra; City Scape

I often wonder what has happened to the American populist symphonic tradition. Have the great contributions to the repertory by...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 4/2004

Cambini Sinfonie

Giuseppe Cambini has had a bad press for almost two centuries: Mozart told tales of his jealousy and intrigue, and...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1999

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