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Life of Sir Edward Elgar

These quite superb new recordings from the Medici Quartet and the pianist, John Bingham, have been released to mark the...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 11/1992

Beethoven Stg Qts Nos 1-6; Eurovisions Project

First, some thoughts on the Brodsky's programming concept. It was an imaginative idea to commission six new 'reflections' on the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2000

R. Strauss Wind Concertos

Hitherto I have recommended the splendid Michael Thompson recordings of the Richard Strauss horn concertos and indeed those wanting a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1989

Musgrave Pierrot Dreaming: Chamber Music for Clarinet, Vol 1

Victoria Soames Samek has already explored the clarinet­and­orchestra music of Thea Musgrave (Cala‚ 10/97); this first of two volumes of...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Delius Appalachia; The Song of the High Hills

After the deaths of two great interpreters of Delius – Sir Charles Mackerras and Richard Hickox – I often wondered...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 6/2011

Scriabin: Piano Sonatas

These two new CDs offer the listener differing aspects of Scriabin's music. Mikhail Rudy plays the last ten opus numbers...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1989

Whitlock Organ Works, Volume 2

These volumes of Whitlock’s complete organ music, the first of which was reviewed in 4/97, are transforming his position in...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/1998

Morales Magnificat

This recording suggests how central is Morales’s position within the High Repertoire. Often spoken of as a precursor of Palestrina,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2008

(The) Piano at the Carnival

After “A Night at the Opera” (A/08), the piano comes to the carnival. Next year we are promised a trip...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2010

Fauré (The) Complete Songs, Vol 4

‘Dans un parfum de roses’ (the quote is from La chanson d’Eve) is the title of the final volume and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2005

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