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Howells Orchestral Works

Both The B’s (1914) and Three Dances (1915) are products of Howells’s student days, when he was one of Stanford’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1997

Tausig: Wagner Transcriptions and Paraphrases

One might think that Liszt had a monopoly on making piano transcriptions of Wagner's music, especially since he was the...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1990

Mozart Sacred Choral Works

It seems that there is a new recording of this work about every second month. Where all the buyers come...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1988

Anne Gjevang in Recital

Anne Gjevang actually—and rightly—calls herself a contralto. The contralto voice, or at least acknowledgment of it by its possessors, has...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

Falla El amor brujo; Homenajes

As is well known by now, and is explained here by the distinguished Spanish musicologist Enrique Franco, Falla’s 1925 El...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1996

Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

So we really are to have complete cycles of the Vaughan Williams symphonies from both Bryden Thomson for Chandos and...

Reviewed in issue 1/1988

Montague Orchestral and Chamber Music

Since the words ''minimalist'' or ''minimalism'' appear on both the front and the back of the packaging of this disc,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1995

Richard Strauss conducts Strauss, Vol. 1

Were he alive today, Richard Strauss would probably declare these recordings 'fearfully old-fashioned' and suggest we seek out more up-to-date...

Reviewed in issue 8/1995

Penderecki Violin Concerto 2/Bartók Violin Sonata 2

The Bartok Sonata was recorded at the same time as the works on the Mutter/Orkis Berlin recital which DD found...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1998

Ravel: Orchestral Works

Karajan made this outstanding Ravel collection for EMI a decade after his justly famed Debussy/Ravel anthology for DG ((CD) 427...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990

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