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Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau. Sinfonietta, Op 23

Zemlinsky’s admirers, who not long ago scanned the catalogues in vain for recordings of his major works, are now spoiled...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1997

Terezín - The Music 1941-44

Hard on the heels of Channel Classics' outstanding Klein and Ullmann coupling (CCS1691, 12/91) comes this rival two-disc compilation devoted...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Ravel Piano Works

They don’t come stranger than this. Anyone who knows Cecile Licad’s early CBS recording of, say, Saint-Saens’s Second Concerto (1/85...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1998

Mahler Symphony No 4

Dorian has gone to town on the presentation and packaging of this issue, the problem being that this is the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2004

Finzi Earth and Air and Rain

Hardy drew the very best from Gerald Finzi, to such an extent that one sometimes feels the reverse to be...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1986

Scarlatti, A (Il) Giardino di Rose

Things are seldom what they seem,’ Little Buttercup remarks in HMS Pinafore, and this disc is certainly sailing under some...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2004

British String Quartets, Vol 2

The only other available recording of Alan Rawsthorne's extremely fine Third (and last) Quartet is in a collection of all...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/2000

Gail Wynters - My Shining Hour

We are perhaps coming to the point where some of the artists on Naxos Jazz are so obscure they’ve never...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 7/1999

Vivaldi for diverse instruments

Here is Vivaldi-playing with a commendably light, athletic touch. It is so easy to make a meal out of his...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1997

Vivaldi Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione, Op 8 - Vol 2

These separately available volumes containing six each of Vivaldi’s Op 8 (of which Nos 1-4 are of course The Four...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2008

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