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Haydn Symphonies 82 & 83

It would be a sad day if Haydn and Mozart symphonies were only to be heard on period instruments, but...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1988

Lalo Orchestral Works

As a great admirer of Lalo's Symphonie espagnole and his (unjustly neglected) Namouna ballet music, I have always resisted his...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1990

Stanford Organ Wks

The crisp and rhythmic playing of Tom Winpenny, coupled with a colourful use of the unspoilt Victorian Binns organ (1892)...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2011

Stokowski conducts Wagner, Vaughan Williams & Schoenberg

It hardly seems credible that the man who prepared and recorded ingeniously wrought ‘symphonic syntheses’ of Wagner’s Ring, Tristan und...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

This immeasurable masterpiece has a disconcerting habit of resisting attempts to capture its haunting and evocative atmosphere on disc. There...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Musgrave Clarinet Concerto etc

To call a four-part composition The Seasons is not to set much store by originality, but Thea Musgrave’s orchestral autumn-to-summer...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1997

Brahms Orchestral & Choral Works

Bernard Haitink is a sturdy Brahmsian with a keen sense of structure. His new version of the First Symphony is...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Hasse Cleofide

Had you asked a musical German of the 1730s or 1740s to identify the greatest living composer of his country,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1988

Schoenberg Piano Concerto; Chamber Symphonies

“After half a century, Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto has found its place in the repertoire.” If Brendel’s contention is true (what...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Englund Syms Nos. 4 & 5; (The) Great Wall of China

The first cycle of Englund’s seven symphonies is finally completed here (after 10 years and under its third conductor) with...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

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