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Weber Abu Hassan; Kampf und Sieg

This version of Abu Hassan has had rather a chequered history. Recorded in Berlin in 1941 on one of the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1989

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5

This disc concludes the complete Mozart cycle recorded by Jean-Bernard Pommier in 1982 but only now being made available in...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1990

Howells Orchestral Works

This delightful and moving disc offers a whole sequence of orchestral works which for whatever reason Howells hid from the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1996

Indy/Martinu Orchestral Works

A most welcome coupling, whose appeal is enhanced in the CD format. The Martinu Rhapsody-Concerto for viola and orchestra, from...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1987

Schönberg Pelleas and Melisande; Wagner Siegfried-Idyll

This brings to three the number of DG recordings of Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande currently available, and it’s no more...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2001

(An) Eternal Harmony

At the centre of this recording stand the large-scale choral works of Robert Carver, canon of Scone (d1546). His music...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2003

Herrmann Wuthering Heights

In his recent biography of Bernard Herrmann, A Heart at Fire's Centre (California University Press), Steven C. Smith relates how...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1993

Mussorgsky/Stravinsky Piano Works

This pianist's name was unknown to me and until now he has been unrepresented in the current catalogue. He was...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1992

20th Century Violin Sonatas

The Debussy is a problematic work. How to chart its elusive progressions from cool elegance, to languor, to playfulness, to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1989

Lou Harrison A Portrait

Following the success of those exemplary releases from MusicMasters devoted to Lou Harrison’s Second and Third Symphonies (5/93 and 5/95...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1998

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