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Music of the Four Countries

''Music Of The Four Countries'' runs the collective title. ''Five surely?'' some would say, for where the Scottish composer writes...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Brossard Petits Motets. Grigny Organ Works

There have been a number of recordings of the music of Sebastien de Brossard recently, not least because the Centre...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/1998

Messiaen Works for Piano and Orchestra

This performance of Oiseaux exotiques was recorded by Bavarian Radio in 1985; Messiaen admired it and apparently suggested the four...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994

Medtner Complete Piano Sonatas

This classic first recording of the 14 piano sonatas makes Medtner’s star soar into the ascendant. Superlatively played and presented,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1998

Penderecki Complete Works for Violin and Piano

The best part of half a century separates Penderecki’s two violin sonatas, and there’s a clear sense of coming full...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2004

Amelita Galli-Curci - Aria and Song Recital

An eminent collector once said to me, ''It's a silly little voice, isn't it'', a point of view I stoutly...

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

Mendelssohn Symphony no.3, etc.

Helped by recorded sound exceptionally full and immediate, Ivan Fischer conducts strong and dramatic readings of both symphony and overture....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1986

Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ Vol 1

Those who possess Jane Parker-Smith’s French Romantic discs on ASV will welcome this new release from Avie, the sort of...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 1/2004

Mexican Orchestral Works

A life-enhancing record. For within it two distinct fields are explored; both of them, in different ways, very rewarding.First the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Pärt Alina

The problem here, if you can call it a problem, is a marked lack of musical 'activity'. Arvo Part eschews...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999

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