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Clarinet Collection Alan Hacker

This is a highly educational record, but don't let that put you off, for it is also highly entertaining. Alan...

Reviewed in issue 8/1983

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Centenary

Centenary tributes such as this are all well and good, but doesn't a great recording like Constantin Silvestri's 1967 In...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Edition Geza Anda Vol 2

These recordings dating from 1955-69 and taken from the West German Radio Archives celebrate the artistry of Géza Anda whose...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2008

Bouzignac Te Deum; Motets

If, by any chance, you should think that with another disc of French seventeenth-century church music from Les Arts Florissants...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/1994

Dutilleux; Ligeti; Nancarrow String Quartets

The return of the Arditti Quartet to the Wigmore Hall for the first time in more than two decades was...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2005

Villa-Lobos Symphony No 7; Sinfonietta No 1

You might wonder at the opening of the Villa-Lobos 7th Symphony (with its explosion of contrary-motion glissandi from a huge...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2004

Sullivan Ivanhoe

Sullivan’s take on Scott’s epic historical novel was his bid to escape the shackles of popular musical theatre and Gilbertian...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2010

Mozart Requiem

It’s possible that the most dramatic passages in Liszt’s last major ‘work in progress’ were the ones he never got...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2004

Shchedrin Carmen Suite etc

By coincidence‚ just before hearing this disc I chanced upon Stan Kenton’s all­Wagner LP from the 1960s (STO2217). ‘File under...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 - 9

It would be difficult to find an odder Beethoven cycle than this. A mish-mash of Berlin Philharmonic and Bavarian RSO...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2003

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