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Schmidt Symphony No 4

Let there be no doubt, Franz Schmidt’s Fourth (1933) is one of the finest of 20th-century symphonies. Its alternately winsome...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2011

Léonin Sacred Music from 12th Century Paris

Red Byrd, supported by Cappella Amsterdam, have made here a fine contribution to the repertoire on disc of twelfth-century polyphony....

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 11/1997

Bach Sonatas & Partitas BWV1001-1006

A comprehensive analysis of these fascinating performances would demand the indulgence of 1000 words or more: so much happens –...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2000

Beethoven String Quartets Nos 6 and 12

“Infectiously beguiling” might be a suitable epithet to describe the Henschel Quartet’s way with the opening movement of Op 18...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2007

R.Strauss Salome

This is, in a literal, somewhat unflattering sense, an overwhelming performance. Together Mehta, Marton and the Sony engineers assault the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1991

Gade Orchestral Works

Here is another CD to swell the growing Gade discography. The Echoes from Ossian Overture has always been well served...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1997

(The) Complete Leopold Godowsky, Vol 1

All 26 titles Leopold Godowsky recorded for Columbia Graphophone between 1913-16 fit neatly on to the first disc in this...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2005

Bruckner Symphony No. 6

Bernard Haitmk told me some weeks ago that since leaving the Concertgebouw Orchestra he has conducted relatively little Bruckner, principally...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1988

Haydn Missa in tempore belli, 'Paukenmesse'

With his Belgian forces – judging by the names, a mainly Walloon choir and Flemish instrumental group – Dirk Vermeulen...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2003

Shankar Homage to Mahatma Gandhi

Shortly after the assassination of Gandhi, Pandit Ravi Shankar was in a studio in Mumbai, preparing a live broadcast for...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 9/2004

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