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Kalinnikov Orchestral Works

Kalinnikov's Second Symphony doesn't have the dramatic power or imaginative fire of its better-known predecessor, but it's full of ingratiating...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1990

Britten the Peformer - Bridge/Britten/Holst

Treasure trove, pure and simple. Britten conducts the music of his beloved mentor and teacher, Frank Bridge, with a heartwarming...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1999

Elgar Cello Concerto

Don’t let the image of an attractive lady on the CD booklet-cover fool you into thinking that the marketing people...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2010

Verdi Il Corsaro

This work, based on Byron's poem, The Corsair, is one of the most economic and inspired of Verdi's early scores....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1990

Schumann Maria Stuart Lieder

Schumann was by no means the only composer obsessed with Robert Burns but no one caught the Scot’s sentiments more...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 4/2010

Music for Two Flutes

A modest record of little-known music with f ew, if any, pretensions to greatness and played on 'contemporary' instruments. The...

Reviewed in issue 5/1984

Dvorák/Haydn Cello Concertos

It is sad that Jacqueline du Pre herself never heard these magnetic, uniquely intense readings with the extra immediacy of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1988

Beethoven Explored, Vol 1

There must be many different ways of exploring Beethoven. Imaginative programming – putting Beethoven’s last violin and piano sonata together...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2003

Corelli Trio Sonatas

The Aurora Ensemble, led by Enrico Garri, take Corelli very seriously. They play on period instruments with both warmth and...

Reviewed in issue 4/1991

Roussel Padmavati

Set in fourteenth-century Chitoor (which Roussel visited in 1909 sharing Ramsay Macdonald's elephant), Padmavati combines exotic indulgence with heroic astringency....

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

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