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Frankel Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8; Ceremony and A Shakespeare Overtures

The years 1957 to ’73‚ the last of Benjamin Frankel’s life‚ were the most productive of ‘serious’ music (his output...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Prokofiev Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5

Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony is one of those works which has always been lucky on the gramophone. It has rarely been...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1990

Bach Cantatas No 113, 179 and 199

This disc‚ offering not just three Bach cantatas complete‚ but an hour­long feature film‚ revealingly celebrates the unique pilgrimage undertaken...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 & 7

The results are impressive. The music is taken consistently up to speed, driven strongly but by no means inflexibly along,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2000

Romantic Christmas Songs

The title may be misleading, and very glad I am to have found it so. ‘Romantic’ here does not mean...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002

Beethoven Symphony No 2; Brahms Symphony No 2

Another month, another in-house label from a leading orchestra. This is not the place to discuss the phenomenon itself –...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2005

Classic Trumpet Concertos

Whilst the Haydn and Hummel trumpet concertos trip merrily off the tongues of modern players on gleaming silver (it seems...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Schumann Cello Concerto; Brahms Serenade No. 1

What I most enjoyed about this superbly engineered CD was the high level of musical interrelation that it more or...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2007

Bach/Telemann Works for Recorded & Strings

This is not a selection you will encounter on one CD all that often, simply because it places a pair...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1999

Coates Orchestral Works

If Eric Coates scarcely needs the pioneering efforts of Marco Polo's British Light Music Series, the series would equally be...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1994

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