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Davies, T Troubairitz

Tansy Davies has been a notable presence in British contemporary music for over a decade and this first disc dedicated...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 7/2011

Suites and Partitas

The play on earlier aesthetics was an integral feature of 20th-century music, as this collection attests. Suite italienne (1933) derives...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2007

Britten Choral Works

These three choral works show Britten in celebratory mood. His Spring Symphony, completed and first performed in 1949, is one...

Reviewed in issue 4/1991

British Light Music Premieres, Vol 5

Dutton’s latest British light music collection spans several decades of musical styles. It opens brightly with Roy Budd’s attractive Tricolor...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2008

Arnold Hobson's Choice etc

Two of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s very best chamber music offerings can be found on this attractive new anthology. Along with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1996

Twentieth-Century Oboe Music

The case for a Channel tunnel (or something) to speed contact with the world beyond these shores receives reinforcement from...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1986

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2; Vocalise, Op 34/14

RCA attempted to side-step the problems of recording in Russia by catching the St Petersburg Philharmonic and its Music Director...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Claudio Arrau in Concert, Vol 3: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Though Claudio Arrau was royally served by his record companies, he had an uneasy relationship with studio recording and it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2004

Mozart Symphonies

Put on this record expecting the rich, solemn textures of the slow introduction of Mozart's E flat Symphony, and you...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1991

R. Strauss Daphne

In spite of this EMI transfer being of a modern recording, and a good one, I would advise any newcomer...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

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