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Haydn Chamber Music for Wind and Strings

The Linos Ensemble’s highly polished, enthusiastic performances in this programme of Haydn’s chamber music for wind instruments and strings generate...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

Haydn Symphonies, Vol. 4

With three versions now in the catalogue (and a fourth, from Hogwood, in the pipeline), Haydn's fetching programmatic trilogy has...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1991

Foulds Keltic Suite; Holiday Sketches

John Foulds was one of the mystery men among British composers. Born in 1880, he died in 1939 having written...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2010

Handel Partenope

Partenope is crammed with outstanding arias varying in musical styles and techniques but it is also a beautifully crafted drama...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2010

(The) Grand Organ of York Minster

Volume 15 of Regent’s splendid English Cathedral Series takes us to York and the superb artistry of John Scott Whiteley,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/2009

Gershwin Complete Music for Piano & Orchestra

I feared the worst having seen the soloist’s photograph in the booklet before listening to the disc. The photogenic Ms...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2008

Unsung Musicals III

Do we really need another selection of ballads, novelty numbers and singalong dance tunes from shows which were either unproduced,...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Mahler Orchestral Works

Segerstam lends a keen, composerly ear to this startling score, delighting in the invention, the textural detail and colour as...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991

Walton conducts Walton

Walton's career as a conductor seems to me to fall into two phases. It was Sir Eugene Goossens, experienced in...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Debussy Piano Works

It is with the second book of Preludes that Livia Rev begins her recital, then plays Masques in the middle...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

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