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Strauss/Ravel/Dukas Piano Works

Here is a record to set the music world on fire, ablaze with the sort of pianistic panache and poetic...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1996

Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ

The youthful Gardiner once turned up at Colin Davis's doorstep and asked how he could become a conductor. Davis offered...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1988

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 3 & 8

First encounters with Enoch zu Guttenberg's Eroica were mostly positive. Tempos are well chosen, energy levels high and there are...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2000

Beethoven Septet Op 20; Spohr Nonet Op 31

Here are four famous old veterans who have seen heroic service, reappearing from time time in various guises, never fading...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2003

Ives Orchestral Works

This is vintage Ives, a kind of source book presenting his ideas and involvements in various chamber orchestra dimensions. The...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1991

Vierne Works for Organ

The Pieces de fantaisie provide a wealth of display material for record companies and concert organists. But for the average...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1992

Brahms String Sextets Nos 1 and 2

The first time I played these performances, I rather disliked them. The second time, they made more sense and now...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Schubert Octet

First impressions of the new LP were good. What sturck me at once was the pleasing, natural bloom of the...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Bach Sonatas and Partitas.

As a matter of tactics disregarding the printed order of the works, this second disc opens in the most effective...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1999

Alwyn Elizabethan Dances; Oboe Concerto; Aphrodite in Aulis

This fifth volume of William Alwyn’s orchestral music from Naxos boasts premiere recordings of two attractive early finds. Unheard for...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2007

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