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Pfitzner Complete Lieder, Vol 4

These are the songs of Pfitzner's high maturity (his great opera Palestrina was written between Op 24 and Op 26)...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2000

Stenhammar Orchestral & Vocal Works

Nowadays there is not much doubt of Stenhammar's standing as the finest Swedish composer after Berwald, though I have to...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1994

Paray Joan of Arc Mass; Symphony No 1

Conductors’ musical compositions usually reflect, more or less, the particular bias of their creators’ standard-repertory interpretations: Furtwangler’s unfold in huge,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Lyapunov Orchestral Works

If Sergei Lyapunov is remembered at all nowadays, it is probably for his Transcendental Studies, consciously modelled on those of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Bach Ascension Cantatas

These four Ascension Day cantatas span 10 years of Bach’s life in Leipzig, from No 37, first performed in May...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2000

André Watts at Carnegie Hall

I was far from impressed with Andre Watts's recent studio recordings of Beethoven sonatas (EMI (D CDC7 49264-2, 9/88) but...

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

Haydn: String Quartets

There is no such thing as a perfect world. Take these three versions of the Lark Quartet. All have attributes...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1989

Peacock Pie

Armstrong Gibbs’s Peacock Pie gives this most attractive collection its title‚ drawn‚ like the composer’s inspiration‚ from Walter de la...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Handel Giulio Cesare

David McVicar’s 2005 staging, being revived this summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2006

Vox Sonora

It’s always a joy when a disc stops you in your tracks as though you were hearing the music for...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

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