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Review of Hindemith Orchestral Works

Hindemith Orchestral Works

Hindemith’s own 1956 account of his Konzertmusik, Op 50 – (Columbia, 3/58 – sadly nla) – has never been bettered...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Review of Balfe Songs

Balfe Songs

The days are long gone when Victorian ballads could expect to arouse wide attention. Yet things have surely gone too...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/2011

Review of Simon Barere at Carnegie Hall, Vol.3

Simon Barere at Carnegie Hall, Vol.3

I'm sure RL will be as glad as I to find that he was unduly pessimistic, just under four years...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1991

Review of Scene d'Amore

Scene d'Amore

Soile Isokoski has established herself as one of the leading Mozart and Strauss sopranos of the day. In this new...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 13/2008

Review of Berners Songs and Music for Solo Piano

Berners Songs and Music for Solo Piano

Lord Berners was born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire as Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson but succeeded to his baronetcy in 1919 and left...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2000

Review of Abel Mr Abel's Fine Airs

Abel Mr Abel's Fine Airs

Carl Friedrich Abel is usually thought of as a genial symphonist much in the mould of his London concert-promoting business...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2008

Review of Shostakovich Symphony No 5. Cello Concerto

Shostakovich Symphony No 5. Cello Concerto

No one recording of Shostakovich's most often-recorded symphony can be all things to all people, but this one has been,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Review of G. Bush Music for Wind and Piano

G. Bush Music for Wind and Piano

Geoffrey Bush is a much respected composer, with a very decent list of recordings to his credit; even so, I...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Review of Walter Frye Vocal Works

Walter Frye Vocal Works

Walter Frye may be something of a key-figure in the middle years of the fifteenth century. His Ave regina celorum...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 6/1993

Review of Kubelík conducts Kubelík

Kubelík conducts Kubelík

Most genuinely re-creative interpreters are also composers, and so it's particularly interesting to experience the 'first-hand' ideas of musicians whose...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995


 

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