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Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past Hermstedt

Considering the fact that the clarinet has been around for nearly three centuries and inspired Mozart and Brahms to write...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994

Gabrieli Canzonas, Sonatas & Motets

The insert-notes announce this disc as containing ''recent discoveries and first recordings on period instruments'' but neglect to tell us...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/1992

Music for the Mary Rose

For musicians, the excitement about the recovery of King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose was that it contained some very...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 4/1988

McMillan Into the Ferment

The Berserking, a piano concerto dating from 1989 (just before James MacMillan attracted wider public attention with The Confession of...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2003

Vasks Symphony No 2; Violin Concerto

The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b1946) has been winning himself something of a cult following over the past decade. On...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2003

Kenneth Leighton: Piano Music, Vol.1

It's good to know that Kenneth Leighton learned before his untimely death last year (he was 58) of Abacus's project...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

Saint-Saëns Orchestral and Chamber Music

The curiosity here is the Duc de Guise music. Since Saint-Saens was born in 1835, before Tchaikovsky and Dvorak, we...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994

Debussy Piano Works, Vol. 2

It looks as if getting both books of Debussy's Preludes on to one CD is going to become the norm—Martin...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Debussy; Zemlinsky String Quartets

This young Spanish quartet, whose previous CD of the Arriaga quartets was highly praised here (1/04), now move on to...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2005

Prokofiev; Szymanowski; Tchaikovsky Piano Works

The provenance of these recordings is not revealed. The Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev were recorded (live) in Warsaw on November 24,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2008

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