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Lutoslawski Chain II; Schnittke Viola Concerto

Here are two ten-year-old works that make a well-contrasted pair. Schnittke's Viola Concerto is the last word in neo-romantic anguish,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1995

Historical Clarinet Recordings, Vol.2

How critically aware are you of dissimilarities in instrumental timbre? As an exercise for specialists in differentiating and identifying clarinet...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1995

Bach: Organ works

The organ sounds a good deal richer on this CD version, the bass especially having a good deal more character,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1984

Sibelius Kullervo Symphony

Kullervo grows in my estimation every time I hear it, and I cannot understand why Sibelius judged it so harshly....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1996

Sauguet Symphony No 2

This work, written in 1949 for the Prix Italia, in conformity with that organization’s encouragement of new forms and resources,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1997

Hermann Abendroth conducts Romantic Masterworks

I love the world of Rautavaara's Angel of Light, its ochre skies and changing weathers, its alternation of instrumental choirs,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999

Gounod Mass

Those who know the Hartemann performance, which still sounds well, may wonder why another recording was thought necessary—and from the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1984

Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic

The ship's bell strikes three, and then—the terrible descent, as the crackle and thunder of crumbling wood plummets through brine...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Rachmaninov Works of Piano Duet

Howard Shelley and Hilary Macnamara have here selected the finest of Rachmaninov's four-hand piano music, leaving the prospect of a...

Reviewed in issue 2/1991

Shostakovich Cello Concerto 1 etc

I have only listed two of the 18 currently available alternatives of Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto (1959) as they are...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

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