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Le Patron of the Saxophone

Revered as the Grand Old Man (he was 95) of the classical saxophone, Marcel Mule is shown by this disc...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1997

Michele Pertusi - Serenata

The problem (for there is one) of presenting songs of this kind with satisfactory arrangements and accompaniments finds a novel...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Franck Orchestral Works

In the Symphonic Variations, Crossley avoids Lisztian flamboyance and generalized 'romantic' inflexion and yet there is plenty that is individually...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1995

Handel (Il) Pastor Fido; Water Music

Telarc here simultaneously offers rival versions of Handel’s Water Music; the one from Martin Pearlman and Boston Baroque is completely...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2003

Tchaikovsky (3) Cantatas

Moscow is a rarity, more so than it deserves to be. The difficulty, of course, is that one city does...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2004

Mahler Symphonic Movements

The idea of a record of Mahlerian symphonic fragments has its attractions but possibly more in a planning conference than...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989

Farnon Light Orchestral Works

The recording dates of the 20 pieces here give an acute sense of the impact Robert Farnon made on the...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Schubert Mayrhofer Lieder

Prégardien and Staier‚ who have now been musical partners for more than 10 years‚ add to their laurels as interpreters...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Stokowski conducts a Russian Spectacular

If ever a disc encapsulated the very essence of Leopold Stokowski's charismatic art, then this is it. Even within the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Music of Sixteenth-Century Rome

No doubt with a view to catching the eye of the passing customer, this collection from King's has the title...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

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