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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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