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Review of Haydn Scottish Songs

Haydn Scottish Songs

Haydn’s many folksong arrangements for the Edinburgh publisher George Thomson were a lucrative sideline of his old age. A decade...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2008

Review of Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

Janet Hilton's new record couples two of the best, and most attractively complementary, twentieth-century clarinet concertos with what at the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1988

Review of Ravel: Piano Works

Ravel: Piano Works

Remembering his first recording of Gaspard de la nuit (Decca SXL6215, 1/66), a new Ravel programme by Ashkenazy is an...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

Review of Fauré Sacred Choral Works

Fauré Sacred Choral Works

Matthew Best uses for this recording of the Requiem either John Rutter's reconstruction of the pre-publication state of Faure's score,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1989

Review of Bloch; Bruch; Kotova Cello Concertos

Bloch; Bruch; Kotova Cello Concertos

It is a long time since instrumental virtuosi were expected to provide much of their own repertoire. Though it was...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2003

Review of Bach Latin Church Works, Vol 1

Bach Latin Church Works, Vol 1

These well filled discs include all four of the short Masses that Bach composed in the 1730s. Consisting of just...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2008

Review of Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker

This month I am almost embarrassed by riches, with the arrival of the fifth (!) complete recording of what I...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1987

Review of Music for Mary Vol 2

Music for Mary Vol 2

Candidates for inclusion on a disc of music concerning the Blessed Virgin Mary would seem to stretch almost to infinity...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2011

Review of Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1-9

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1-9

Having responded happily to the fresh air and brisk tempos that David Zinman has consistently brought to Beethoven throughout this...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Review of Xenakis Miscellaneous Works

Xenakis Miscellaneous Works

I know of no tougher proposition in contemporary music than a programme of unrelieved Xenakis. Even the insert-note writer speaks...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1993


 

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