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Glazunov Raymonda (highlights)

Glazunov was a choreographer's dream. Listening to this generously compiled super-suite (24 numbers, playing for nearly 56 minutes), even if...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1986

Dvorak Symphony No 6

The first significant plus-point on this warmly played new account of Dvorák’s Sixth Symphony is that Marin Alsop observes the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2010

Messiaen Piano Works, Volume 3

Discussing previous volumes in this series (12/94 and 2/98) I've mentioned Austbo's subtle palette of keyboard colour, and his sensitive...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2000

Russian orchestral works

Since the overture 1812 comes first on this disc I take it that the record is intended to be a...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

Mahler Symphony No 6

Here is another example of Evgeni Svetlanov in extrovert vein. Gone is the Klemperer-like preoccupation with textural clarity at inordinately...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Gibbons Hymns and Songs of the Church

This recording of Orlando Gibbons’s Hymnes and Songs of the Church will be a valuable documentary for anyone interested in...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/2006

Triumphal Music for Organ & Orchestra

Franz Hauk, ever-resourceful organist of Ingolstadt Minster, has been dredging the libraries and publishers’ back-catalogues to unearth repertoire for organ...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2000

Mahler Symphonies Nos 8 & 10 (Adagio)

Haitink's 1971 recording of the Eighth had a coolish reception when it first appeared and one can appreciate that after...

Reviewed in issue 4/1988

Prokofiev & Ravel Conduct their own Works

''Through gramophone records'', Ravel once remarked when discussing the future of his music, ''composers can now say definitely how they...

Reviewed in issue 8/1988

Prokofiev String Quartets 1 & 2

Prokofiev's wider popularity has never extended to his string quartets, though the second has maintained a foothold in the catalogue....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1990

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