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Reger Organ Works

On Radio 3's ''Music Weekly'', if I remember rightly, Graham Barber suggested that Reger's organ music only had a reputation...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Schulhoff Plameny (The Flames)

Many of Erwin Schulhoff’s concert works suggests a dramatic gift, but this is the only opera that he completed. Flammen...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1996

Handel: Music for Royal Occasions

Queen Anne celebrated her 48th and penultimate birthday on February 6th, 1713. Handel probably composed his ode, Eternal source of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1989

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol.10

One thing this series should be seen clearly to have done is to knock on the head once and for...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works

Both the Eighth and New World show the inimitable Halle/Barbirolli partnership at its most inspirationally fresh, and the enormously characterful...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998

Weir Night at the Chinese Opera

Judith Weir’s first large-scale work for the theatre, composed in 1986-87, is an assured demonstration of in-debted independence. An enterprising...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2000

Mahler Symphony No 9

It would be tempting but absurd to dismiss this finely played, deeply considered performance as unidiomatic. It is, however, on...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Schumann Symphony No 2. Cello Concerto

Trevor Harvey, writing in January, found the earlier in bernstein's Schumann cycle overblown and too overtly expressive, though as I...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1986

Bruckner Symphony no 3

What a fine idea it would be, if a conductor existed who had the patience and expertise to carry it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2004

Alexander Kipnis (1891-1978) - I

Kipnis has been unaccountably neglected on CD, and since EMI have been remiss in ignoring him this Preiser reissue is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1990

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