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Kirchner Chamber Works

Little known outside Germany, Volker David Kirchner’s music tends towards the introspective and self-searching. The two works for string sextet,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1999

Sibelius Orchestral Works

Occasionally a record comes along which proves so involving that one forgets one is reviewing it. These performances are so...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1993

Brahms Orchestral Works

Refinement is not a quality which one normally associates with the New York Philharmonic, even though it has been one...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Mahler Symphony No 6 etc

Once you've discounted the typically adventurous coupling, Dohnanyi's third Mahler symphony on disc brings few revelations. This is a CQOI,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1993

Brahms Symphony No 2; Double Concerto

Labels such as LSO Live bring altered priorities and fresh perspectives. When did a studio-based company last contemplate recording Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2004

Howells Choral Music

This is another exemplary addition to the Finzi Singers’ ever-expanding discography. The earliest offerings here comprise Even such is time,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1996

Pärt I Am the True Vine

Put on the opening seconds of Bogoroditse Djevo ('Rejoice, O Mother of God') - a King's College Choir Commission from...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000

Shostakovich String Qtet No 10.Weinberg Piano Quintet Op 18

Mikhail Kopelman was leader of the Borodin Quartet for 20 years, a period which included one of the better recorded...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2011

Gombert Sacred Choral Works

Nicolas Gombert is a notoriously under-recorded composer, but his few appearances in the CD catalogue are fully worthy of him....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1996

Popular Orchestral Works

In considering the various available recordings of Peter and the Wolf, inspite of a good modern Telarc/Conifer CD version by...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1989

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