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Budd Rebirth of the Budd

Roy Budd’s jazz-based brand of easy listening livened up numerous under-achieving British films of the 1970s. Not that Get Carter...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1999

Telemann Paris Quartets Nos 1 - 6

Telemann’s 12 so-called ‘Paris Quartets’ are among the most beguiling chamber works of the late-Baroque period, so a new recording...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2003

Great European Organs, No.29

The major classic in the British organ repertory here is the Elgar Sonata, his only instrumental work on this scale...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1994

Medtner Piano Works

I have to admit to being slightly nonplussed by Marco Polo's philosophy. Their decision to steer clear of the mainstream...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1992

Pfitzner Complete Lieder, Vol 3

Volume 1 (6/99) was promising, Vol. 2 (10/99) revealed a major song-writer, but Vol. 3 is quite extraordinary. Pfitzner was...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1999

Höller Signals

These are major works from a composer whose ability to harness expressive intensity with sonic originality is far too little...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/1999

Grieg: Orchestral Works

Since those famous Columbia light blue label 78rpm discs (with the LPO) of the Suite No. 1, Beecham's Peer Gynt...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1989

Medieval & Traditional Music of Spring & Summer

Herein are gathered the six recorded solo sonatas from L'Ecole d'Orphee's two-LP set of Handel's woodwind works in that genre,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1986

Gounod Requiem

Today’s average music lover might be hard-pushed to name more than perhaps half a dozen of Gounod’s works, although they...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 8/2011

Wagner (Die) Walküre

This second instalment of the second Bayreuth Festival Ring cycle from 1955 is unlikely to change the views of those...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2010

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