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Dvorák Czech Suite (B93); Waltzes (B101); Polonaise (B100)

This is a delightful collection of Dvorák in relaxed mood. All three works date from 1879, just when German publishers...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2006

Rorem Three Symphonies

Naxos has scored another bull’s eye in its American Classics series, giving us long-awaited, première recordings of Ned Rorem’s first...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2003

Feldman - First Recordings: 1950s

The Mode release offers Feldman jewels from the 1950s, mostly first recordings. I had never heard his tape piece, Intersection,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1999

Vaughan Williams Symphonies

Were the competition less intense, I'd probably be bestowing a warmer welcome to Kees Bakels's new coupling (the second instalment...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994

Wagner Parsifal

Parsifal always brings out the very best in its interpreters, and this new version is no exception. Barenboim is always...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1991

Corigliano (The) Red Violin Caprices; Thomson Three Portraits

This is another incarnation of John Corigliano’s Red Violin music. First the film and the Chaconne for violin and orchestra...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/2008

Souster - Electric Brass

Tim Souster’s thoughtful and creative attitude to sound is well demonstrated by Equalisation. Echoes suggests an anarchic Malcolm Arnold, while...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/1999

Beethoven Piano Trios, Nos 5 'Ghost' and 6

Schubert is foreshadowed in the third movement of the Sixth Trio. Beethoven originally conceived it as a minuet but then...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2005

Norwegian Violin Favourites

The best-known piece here is Svensen's disarmingly memorable Romance, with its romanticised folk-like main theme (beautifully played here). Svensen, like...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2000

Waters Ça Ira

Roger Waters (if you don’t know) was bass player, chief lyricist and co-composer in Pink Floyd during the period when...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2005

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