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David Diamond Orchestral Works

A perfect introduction to this headstrong American voice. The composition dates take us from 1936 to 1989—not quite the whole...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1993

Dyson Choral Works

Following up the success of the Chandos recording of Dyson’s big cantata, Quo Vadis (6/03), comes this excellent disc of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003

R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier & Lieder

When this famous set came for review, in a reissue on World Records (12/73—nla), I wrote that certain old recordings,...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

Astrid Varnay - Opera Scenes and Orchestral Songs

On four incredibly busy, surely taxing, days in June 49 years ago, Astrid Varnay recorded an appreciable tranche of her...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2003

Bach Cantatas Nos. 202 & 209

For a while now, Bach's wedding cantata, Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten has been ascribed to the composer's years at Weimar...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1989

Dvorák Slavonic Dances

This is music that in any half decent performance (and Dohnanyi's is considerably more than that) has you fervently wishing...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1990

Four Seasons

Writing in the booklet accompanying this record, the Uruguayan composer and conductor Jose Serebrier (b. 1938, and a protege of...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1993

Dowland Lute Works

The disc contains 24 items, but of the 42 in Robert Dowland’s anthology of 1610 Dowland contributed only seven, not...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1997

Chopin: Piano Concertos, etc

Tamas Vasary had only just entered his thirties when recording the two Chopin concertos in the 1960s. I was delighted...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1990

Bach Organ Works Vol 8

Of the comparisons above Herrick is too effervescent for my taste. These are short pieces, some lasting well under a...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1999

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