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Prokofiev Symphony No 5

Hearing this recording in its CD format I can report that my original enthusiasm was not misplaced. There is nothing...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1988

Sauget Vocal and orchestral works

Henri Sauguet (1901-89), the protege of Satie and friend of Milhaud, continued to compose into old age. These three works...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1990

Deutsch Film Scores

It was in 1937 that Adolph Deutsch was signed up by Warner Brothers on a seven-year contract to compose a...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2002

Mozart: Piano Works

Though printed in four languages, the accompanying booklet includes no information about the music. Instead, its slender space goes to...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1989

Stockhausen Tierkreis, 'Zodiac'

Thirty years ago, the idea of Stockhausen composing a series of 12 melodies on the signs of the zodiac might...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2003

(The) Classical Age In Finland

Crusell was not the only able Finnish composer before Sibelius, even if he is probably the best known. Regular organised...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Bruckner Symphony No 5

There is a world of difference between the start of these two performances, between the Berlin Philharmonic’s giant footfalls and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1997

Hans Hotter - Grosse Sänger unseres Jahrhunderts

Too many young collectors today know Hotter only as a Wagnerian (then usually in the Solti Ring where he was...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1999

Prokofiev Orchestral Works

Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije brings out the best in Temirkanov—the humorist, the cartoonist. Consider a few of many pertinent details: Kije's...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1992

Haydn Symphonies

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment do not have a regular conductor of their own, and have not developed...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990

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