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Summer Works

The catalogue is not short of anthologies of flute music and transcriptions but there is always room for another good...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1991

Rachmaninov/Stravinsky Orchestral Works

The remote community of Novosibirsk might seem an unlikely setting for a thriving cultural life but the Russian-Soviet tradition of...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Stamitz Symphonies

No Carl Stamitz, no consolidation of the Mannheim school of composers and performers founded by his father Johann. There were...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2011

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

One of my dreams, cherished ever since I first heard Dame Janet Baker as Dido, is that Covent Garden, the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1986

Grieg Lyric Pieces

This is certainly one of the very finest discs that Gilels ever made. Record buyers should be eternally grateful that...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1987

Mondonville Grands Motets

After years in which his name but rarely appeared in record catalogues, Mondonville has suddenly become a focus of attention:...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1997

Brahms Hungarian Dances

Both issues offer distringuished performances by two of the world's great orchestras under conductors of stature. The playing of the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1984

20th Century Works for Solo Cello

Wolfgang Boettcher, now in his sixties, brings a wealth of experience to this unhackneyed programme: and, although he is no...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/1999

Shostakovich Chamber Works

That Shostakovich is not really the Beaux Arts' strong point is immediately suggested by the Quintet's poorly voiced, lumpily accented...

Reviewed in issue 8/1991

Cage Works for Percussion

The fourth volume of Cage’s percussion music contains some shocking revelations – at one time Cage wrote in glorious C...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/2006

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