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Mozart Edition, Vol. 7

This is another issue in Philips's Complete Mozart Edition, with 12 discs averaging 63 minutes and offering a comprehensive survey...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1991

Moniuszko Halka

Michael Oliver neatly gauged Halka's stature in his review of Le Chant du Monde's pioneering audio recording (8/88 - nla)....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2007

Ives Songs, Vol 5

The final two volumes of this ambitious series follow the pattern of the first four with a large cast of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2009

Purcell The Fairy Queen

The Fairy Queen, Purcell's third semi-opera was given for the first time at the Queen's Theatre Dorset Gardens, in the...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 1/1990

Dvorák: Slavonic Dances and Rhapsodies

The story is well known about Simrock, Dvorak's publisher, realizing quickly that the first set of Slavonic Dances were such...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Telemann Magnificat in C

Readers with a pronounced bias towards Telemann's music will be delighted by the appearance of this rarity: Oratorium der Kapitansmusik...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1994

Glass Symphonie Nos 2 & 3

‘There’s one piece by Philip Glass that I really like.’‘Which one?’‘Any one.’Old joke. Awfully droll, eh? And, for a reviewer,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 12/2004

Ippolitov-Ivanov Orchestral Works

Tchaikovsky thought kindly of Ippolitov-Ivanov personally, but had reservations about his talent as a composer. Perhaps he detected too much...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1998

Penderecki Polish Requiem

The first performance in Munster Cathedral in 1966 of Penderecki's Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam brought...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/1991

British Flute Works

Jeffrey Khaner’s first recital for Avie, of American flute music, was well received, by me among others (6/02); this one...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2003

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