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Organ Fireworks Vol 14

A source of perpetual admiration in this endlessly rewarding series is the sheer range of repertoire Christopher Herrick gets through....

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2010

J C Bach Symphonies & Concertos

We have become so used to thinking of JS Bach’s youngest son Johann Christian as a purveyor of mid-Classical elegance...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2004

Berlioz Orchestral works

Though reissued at budget price, neither of these versions of the Symphonie fantastique really provides the value that is to...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1990

Brahms Tragic Overture; Schubert Symphony No 9; Weber Oberon Overture

Schubert's “Great C major” is a symphony which cannot be learnt; a conductor either feels it in his bones or...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2007

Alkan Chamber Works

The reasonably healthy listing of discs under Alkan's entry in the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue is sufficient proof that his...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1993

Brahms Piano Works, Vol. 1

Antonin Kubalek was born in 1935 in Czechoslovakia but has lived in Canada since 1968. He has already made two...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992

Rachmaninov; Tchaikovsky Piano Trios

A more apposite coupling might have been two Russian “in memoriam” piano trios (Tchaikovsky’s written in memory of Nikolai Rubinstein,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2011

Beethoven/Mendelssohn Violin Concertos

In the Beethoven the shock of the old comes right at the start, long before the entry of Monica Huggett...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1994

Bach Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection

Fifteen years ago the existence of the Neumeister Collection – a compendium of 82 organ chorale preludes including 38 by...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2000

Saint-Saëns Africa

Saint-Saëns was greatly regarded in his time but his reputation has slipped in our own, when ready tunefulness, elegance, craftsmanship...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2007

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