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Bacewicz Orchestral and Chamber Works

Like the disc of music by Grazyna Bacewicz which I reviewed in August, this one demonstrates her considerable strengths as...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1993

Schwarwenka Piano Works, Volume 4

Volume 4 continues Seta Tanyel’s delightful odyssey through the piano works (including concertos and chamber music) of Xaver Scharwenka, as...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996

Meredith Monk Atlas

With this, Meredith Monk's latest record and one of her most substantial pieces, a number of questions have to be...

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 10/1993

Prokofiev L'amour des Trois Oranges

More Oranges to throw tomatoes at. Once again the designer and costumier have a field day - in this case...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2008

Purcell (The) Fairy Queen

This Italian-led recording is a live concert performance from the Ravenna Festival and combines indigenous ‘period’ instrumentalists with a group...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2004

Schnabel plays Mozart

Here is superlative woodwind and horn playing, kept in perfect balance (rare, and difficult for that particular combination) by a...

Reviewed in issue 9/1987

Raff Orchestral Works

A collectors's item today, Joachim Raff's Third Symphony Im Walde (1869) was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and with the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1992

Beethoven Piano Sonatas; (32) Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 13

One day I expect Leon McCawley to join the ranks of the acclaimed few we go to hear in complete...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Liadov Three Symphonic Sketches; Russian Folksongs

Liadov’s musical output was slender, simply because (like a musical version of Goncharov’s Oblomov) he was too idle to get...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1997

Handel Messiah

From the 1940s until the early 1960s one of the greatest of regular British musical events (every bit as important...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1996

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