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Review of Langgaard Symphonies

Langgaard Symphonies

Rued Langgaard was nothing if not prolific. There are 16 symphonies, seven string quartets and some 400 works in all....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1992

Review of Beecham conducts Delius

Beecham conducts Delius

Beecham’s conception sounds very different here, more atmospheric, yet somehow considerably less taut than I had remembered. Intriguingly, the pitch...

Reviewed in issue 3/2001

Review of Busoni Orchestral Works, Vol 2

Busoni Orchestral Works, Vol 2

Neeme Järvi has sometimes been accused of purveying an all-purpose style with rather hasty tempi, but that kind of integrationist...

Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 7/2005

Review of CPE Bach/Vivaldi/Tartini Cello Concertos

CPE Bach/Vivaldi/Tartini Cello Concertos

Of the many modern players who increasingly are performing the smaller-scale eighteenth-century concertos, remarkably few seem able to scale down...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Review of Koechlin Orchestral Works

Koechlin Orchestral Works

Koechlin's Ballade, a 20-minute work cast in a single movement comprising seven sections, was completed in 1919, when the composer...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Review of Hindemith & Reger Variations

Hindemith & Reger Variations

Reger is having a good year. That his most famous (some would say infamous) work for orchestra should have finally...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1990

Review of Goldmark Violin Concerto

Goldmark Violin Concerto

No sooner had I put the finishing touches to my review of Joshua Bell's new Sony recording of Goldmark's First...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2000

Review of Dvorák; Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos

Dvorák; Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos

Strangely, the Dvorák and Tchaikovsky violin concertos – written within a year of each other – have rarely been coupled...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2004

Review of Grieg Historic Recordings

Grieg Historic Recordings

Simax have followed their three-CD set of historic interpretations of Grieg's piano music (9/93) with a similar one devoted to...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1994

Review of Bizet Operatic Works

Bizet Operatic Works

Neither Philip Hope-Wallace nor AB could work up much enthusiasm for this recording of Les pecheurs de perles on its...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989


 

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