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Renaissance Music from the Courts of Mantua and Ferrara

Having greatly enjoyed this issue on LP and cassette, I'm delighted to find that it has also been made available...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Works for Cello

Robert Cohen rarely fails to sound convincing in live performances, and unlike many of his rivals his intuitive musicianship seldom...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 1/1992

Bruckner Symphonies 4 & 7

Mario Venzago is a Hans Swarowsky pupil who is best known in the UK as principal conductor of the Northern...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2011

Dvorák Symphony No 2; Slavonic Rhapsody

Jarvi directs a characteristically warm and urgent performance of this exuberant inspiration of the 24-year-old composer. It is by far...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1988

Toch Cello Concerto, Op 35; Tanz-Suite, Op 30

CPO are certainly doing the cause of Ernst Toch proud. Having already recorded several symphonies (12/97) and string quartets (1/02,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2002

Music for Trumpet and Organ

In his informative and elegantly written note our own JF-A is so frank as to seem to be knocking down...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1994

Orff Carmina Burana

Zubin Mehta's new Carmina burana was made at The Maltings, Snape, and its resonant acoustic encompasses the climaxes spectacularly, even...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1994

20th Century Music for Flute and Orchestra

If you believe that twentieth-century flute music only found its authentic voice with Boulez – or, later, with Ferneyhough –...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1999

Britten & L. Berkeley: Orchestral Works

This is a refreshingly unusual Britten selection on disc. Canadian Carnival is not a major piece and is heavily influenced...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Bach Magnificat and Masses

New modern-instrument performances of Bach are more the exception than the rule these days, though the gap in the underlying...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1995

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