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Beethoven Symphony No 5; Mozart Sinfonia concertante, K297b

This second CD from Daniel Barenboim’s astonishing West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, bringing together young Arab and Israeli musicians, is in many...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2006

Schmidt Clarinet Quintet

Schmidt's A major Quintet for clarinet, piano and strings is an original and thoughtful work in five movements, one of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1992

Furrer Stimmen; Dort ist das Meer; Quartet; Face de la Chaleur

Beat Furrer, born in 1954 and based in Austria, is a composer who has remained faithful to the principles and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2003

Weisgall Six Characters in Search of an Author

According to Grove, Hugo Weisgall is “perhaps America’s most important composer of operas”, and of his full-length ones Six Characters...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1996

Dvorák Symphony No 9

The most comforting news about these two CDs is that there's nothing special to report save for wonderful music, fine...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000

Sallinen Complete Works for String Orchestra

Listening to Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik’s Funeral March, Sallinen’s 1981 transcription of his Third Quartet for string orchestra, I...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Mahler Symphony No 1

This is the performance I have been waiting for. Twenty years separate it from Bernstein's earlier account with the NYPO...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1989

Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch

This issue places me in various quandaries. Having just been fulsome in my praise of the Teldec issue, I find...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Clementi Fortepiano Works

Theodor Adorno, a pupil of Berg, and better known as a philosophical writer on music than a composer, made these...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 4/2000

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade; Russian Easter Overture

Having made his rep­utation as the lively conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic since 1996‚ Robert Spano has now taken over...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

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