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Hartmann Symphonies Nos 1 & 6
Alas, this new issue from Telarc is not the harbinger of a third cycle, but a one-off issue of two...
Reviewed in issue 10/1999
Beethoven Transfigured
No less than eight of these 10 transcriptions are world premiere recordings. One suspects Beethoven might have had a sense...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2009
Liszt: Symphonic Poems
These are strong, exciting and idiomatic performances. Masur draws impassioned playing from the Gewandhaus orchestra in the best known of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1988
Erik Bergman Choral Works
You might call Erik Bergman a maxi-minimalist. He is interested in the sound and the power of words, in the...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1987
Poulenc Chamber Music
No fewer than four of the five works recorded here by these Czech and French players were tombeaux (elegies) for...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1998
Giardini and Mozart Violin Concertos
An interesting coupling: Giardini was primarily a violinist who excited Mozart's admiration as such, Mozart was primarily a composer who...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Purcell O Solitude - Songs and Airs
No doubt we will soon be made to realize the extent of Purcell's secular vocal achievements in the tercentenary celebrations...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1994
Wolff Bread and Roses
‘Dependency and ‘Freedom’ – watchwords central to music-making of the kind that Christian Wolff envisages in For 1, 2 or...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2004
Mudarra Libros De Musica En Cifras Para Vihuela
The 11 extant books of music for the vihuela span, with one exception, a period of only 42 years and...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1992
Caldara Sinfonie a Quattro
Antonio Caldara is best known as a composer of vocal music whose recent reputation was considerably enhanced by René Jacobs’s...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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