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Holst Choral Works

An ideal pairing: two of Holst's most ambitious, imaginative and questing creations, still under-appreciated to this day. Initially inspired by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994

Gloria Coates Symphonies Nos. 1, 4 & 7

Finding a uniquely personal style is harder now for a composer than it has ever been. Gloria Coates, an American-born,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1997

Berg Wozzeck

This comes close to being a giant­killer among Wozzeck recordings; I have a few reservations but I admire this new...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

American Piano Music

This record makes an atmospheric impression immediately with a polished, lyric ''Dreaming'' (from Four Sketches, Op. 15, written in 1892),...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1991

Elgar Enigma Variations; Pomp and Circumstance Marches

As Trevor Harvey pointed out in his original review (4/83), this, Andrew Davis's second recording of the Enigma (he has...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1994

Myra Hess-1938-1942 Recordings

Those who, sadly, retain an image of Dame Myra Hess as either a sober-suited pianist inclined towards severity or a...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1996

Barrett Vanity

If you admire Samuel Beckett’s ability to make memorable artworks out of an unsparing, if not despairing, pessimism, then the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1997

Aires del Virreinato

Urtext has been steadily producing a fascinating series of discs of music from Mexico, using by and large Mexican musicians....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: /2000

Haydn Symphonies, Vol.15

Though only No. 13 can be dated with certainty, all four works here belong to the years 1760-63, spanning Haydn's...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/1994

Villa-Lobos Choros, Vol. 2

How many Chôros are there? Fourteen numbered examples (with two claimed as “lost”), two Chôros bis, a Wind Quintet en...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2008

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