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Sibelius Karelia Music; Press Celebrations Music

Here is the first recording ever of the so-called Press Celebrations Music of 1899. For its genesis I refer you...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1999

Granados Piano Music (Complete)

Here‚ on six CDs‚ are virtually the complete piano works of Granados‚ the previously issued Goyescas‚ Escenas románticas and a...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Smetana Má Vlast

In January, I welcomed the return of Vaclav Talich's classic 1954 Czech Philharmonic Ma vlast to the catalogue, with a...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Canticum Canticorum

The biblical Song of Songs (also known as the Song of Solomon) has inspired countless composers of vocal music down...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: /2000

Glazunov Symphonies Nos 2 and 7

The Glazunov symphonies are cultivated, melodious works, but sometimes the composer is inclined to repeat his ideas once too often,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/1997

Mozart: Concert and Operatic Arias

The association of Baker and Leppard has been productive of so many splendid performances in the past that one approaches...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Horovitz Fantasia & Quartets

I gave a warm welcome to a Dutton CD of four concertos by Joseph Horovitz (11/07). This Carducci Quartet collection...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/2009

Rossini Barber of Seville (English)

This well-received recording is now issued in a format compatible with more recent additions to the Chandos Opera in English...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2000

Purcell Complete Anthems & Services, Vol.8

Five verse anthems, two canticles, a devotional song and Purcell's remarkable oratorian 'motet', Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, comprise the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1994

Bacevicius Orchestral Works

Vytautas Bacevicius was born into a Polish-Lithuanian family in Lódz, Poland, in 1905, but emigrated to the then Lithuanian capital,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2007

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