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Korngold Music from the Films

Erich Korngold was the pioneer composer of the Hollywood film score during the 1930s and ’40s when, working at the...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2002

Bowen; Forsyth Viola Concertos

During the decade leading up to the First World War, York Bowen (1884-1961) was one of the brightest and most...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2005

Vuori Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Harri Vuori (b1957) came relatively late to music, not starting to study until his mid-teens. His teachers included Heininen, Hämeenniemi...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2008

Bach Motets

In the booklet, Bo Holten and interviewer Mark Wiggins discuss the performance practice options open to modern performers in a...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2009

Mozart Piano Music for Four Hands

Even more, perhaps, than the solo piano music, Mozart's piano duet works, with their inevitably rather thick and low-pitched textures,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1994

Dohnányi Serenade, Op 10; Martinu String Trio No 2; Schoenberg String Trio, Op 45

An extraordinary piece, Schoenberg’s 1946 String Trio: uncompromising creative rigour applied to genuinely expressive ends. Terse, aphoristic, haunting and disruptive,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2005

Wagner's Heroes

The Arte Nova Voices series introduces a number of up-and-coming singers on early solo CDs. In fact, the first disc...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 4/2001

Handel Giulio Cesare in Egitto

A triumph in the composer’s lifetime, Giulio Cesare remains the public’s favourite Handel opera, with good reason. The characters, most...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2010

Ives Orchestral Works

I have enthused about this conductorless chamber orchestra, especially their outstanding all-Copland release also on DG (see my ''Gramophone Collection'',...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1994

Rameau (Une) Symphonie Imaginaire

Marc Minkowski’s desire to conjure a Rameau symphony is understandable. It is disappointing not to have a contribution to this...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 13/2005

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