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Anderson Orchestral Works, Vol 2

Having launched its collected edition of Anderson’s orchestral music with such a first-rate programme (3/08), Naxos might reasonably have been...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2008

Vivaldi The Four Seasons (Manchester Version)

This is only the second recording, as far as I know, to follow the manuscript parts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1992

Karlowicz Symphony in E Minor, 'Rebirth'

By contrast with Dux’s previous efforts for the Karlowicz series, here the honours seem fairly even between the Polish players...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2009

Khatchaturian Cello Concerto; Violin Concerto

This first thing that struck me about this disc was Oliver Wazola’s fascinating booklet-note. It relates an extraordinary incident in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2004

Bellini (I) Puritani

This bounty from the archive would be welcome at any time but never more so than at the present. Glyndebourne’s...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2011

Rosenberg The Revelation of St John (Symphony No. 4)

Rosenberg is an exact contemporary of Milhaud and Honegger, though his centenary last year went almost unremarked in this country....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1993

Symphonies by Martinu

Volume 2 of “The Early Recordings” once more shows Michelangeli, among the greatest of all pianists, as an introvert who...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2010

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 & 7

Christoph von Dohnanyi's readings of the Fifth and Seventh Symphonies are smoothly, perhaps at times too smoothly, executed. Phrasing is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1988

Strozzi Diporti di Euterpe

Eleven imaginative and melodically striking vocal pieces from a collection published in 1660, towards the end of the relatively short...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1999

Classical works for Flute, Bassoon and Piano

Some fairly remote corners of the repertoire are explored here. Since very few composers of stature have written for this...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1986

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