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Suder Kleider machen Leute

If you are collecting Zemlinsky's operas, and have already sampled the recent Koch-Schwann recording of his Kleider machen Leute (1/92),...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1992

Maxwell Davies Salome

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies composed this large-scale ballet score in a mere six months. The music is not as intricately...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2004

Bach Cantatas

Peter Schreier takes the opening aria of the Kreuzstab Cantata at a brisker pace than I can ever previously remember...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1993

Schubert/Crumb Chamber Works

This is not a disc for the faint-hearted. Both works are concerned with death, and Crumb's Black Angels offers a...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Appalachia Waltz

Dreaming of Appalachia, most classical buffs will conjure Copland’s spring peepers. The laterally minded will picture Cecil Sharp. The folk-minded...

Reviewed by khowell in issue: 12/1996

Suk Ripening

Suk's Ripening is a large-scale symphonic poem lasting the best part of an hour, completed in 1917 and first performed...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1986

Spohr Symphonies Nos 3 & 6

Howard Shelley has a strong feeling for the varieties and subtleties of Spohr’s symphonic style, and here continues his cycle...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2010

Mozart; Schubert; Schumann Piano Works

After Valerie Tryon’s Chopin, Liszt and Ravel marathons for APR comes a mixed recital where her immaculate virtues are displayed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2008

Bach - Voices Of Bach

For his second Bach album Albrecht Mayer, principal oboist in the Berlin Philharmonic, has collaborated once again with arranger Andreas...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 6/2010

French Music for Piano and Orchestra

A renamed RTE Symphony Orchestra, a match for its more recorded counterpart m Ulster, taped this programme last year in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1995

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