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Honneger Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4

With this issue Charles Dutoit completes his welcome survey of the five Honegger symphonies with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1986

Onyx Brass - Contemporary British Chamber Music

An enterprising programme, full of unexpected delights, though Tavener’s Trisagion (1981) is not really weighty enough to suffice as the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

The Great Waltz

An album of lush waltzes from opera, ballet but mainly the movies is a nice idea, especially one that includes...

Reviewed by rseeley in issue: 6/1994

Haas Sarlatan

Readers caught up in the resurgence of interest in the work of the post-Janacek Czech-German school suppressed by the Nazis...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Bizet L'Arlésienne

In his introductory essay in the booklet, Jean-Claude Malgoire states that his intention in this recording is to try to...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1999

Alwyn Orchestral Works

Following up the welcome Lyrita reissue of all five of Alwyn's symphonies, conveniently fitted onto two CDs only (7/92 and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1992

Vasks Pater Noster; Dona nobis pacem; Missa

In the booklet interview, Peteris Vasks notes that during the Soviet rule in Latvia composition of sacred choral music was...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2007

Telemann: Works for oboe and continuo

I remarked in my earlier review of this recording that the programme did not, perhaps, represent Telemann at his most...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1985

Rózsa (3) Hungarian Sketches

Naxos’s trawl through Rózsa’s orchestral and concertante works reaches its third instalment with a real rarity: the premiere recording of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2011

Brahms Orchestral Works

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski made some very good records for Mercury and Vox in the 1960s and 1970s when he was conductor...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

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