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Nielsen: Organ Works

Ask any Nielsen-lover about the organ works and you will probably encounter unqualified enthusiasm. They are all late pieces, with...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Wagner (Das) Rheingold

Suggesting that the theatrical wizard Richard Wagner anticipated contemporary cinematic techniques is like claiming that his music prefigured modernism and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2010

Johansen/Grieg String Quartets

Grieg turned three times to the string quartet, but his first attempt of 1861 has been lost. The G minor...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994

Boccherini/Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Quintets

To the many who reflexively associate Yamashita with musically ill-advised, smash-and-grab raids on works such as Pictures at an Exhibition,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1992

Stanford Symphony No 3; Irish Rhapsody No 5

In the mythology of English music, Stanford is the Brahmsian Old Testament that Elgar was sent to sweep away with...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1988

J T Williams Star Wars, The Phantom Menace

Arguably the most anticipated film ever made, George Lucas’s The Phantom Menace (1999) is the first instalment of a Star...

Reviewed by kmulhall in issue: 8/1999

Boismortier Ballet de Village

Fancy a rustic French frolic? During the third decade of the 18th century, the bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy of the peasant...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 9/2000

Messiaen Quator pour le fin du Temps

Both of these recordings from the early 1990s have much going for them. It might perhaps seem unfortunate for the...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 2/2003

Spohr String Quartets, Vol.6

The project of recording all Spohr's string quartets has now reached Volume 6, and two of his finest works in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1993

Mozart Orchestral & Vocal Works

This set, rather varied both in content and in standard, can be sorted out into four stages: performances with the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1992

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