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Handel Cantate and Duetti

Most of these vocal duets and cantatas come from Handel’s early years in Italy, in one case maybe even before...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1997

Poulenc/Guilmant/Widor Organ Works

As horoscope writers in the seamier magazines might put it, with Yan Pascal Tortelier and the BBC Philharmonic in conjunction...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1994

Shostakovich Cello Concertos

As I said in my first review, this is an important as well as a logical coupling. No doubt collectors...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1985

Beethoven Symphony No 3

Here are three Eroicas, each of which confounds critical cliches about its respective conductor. Furtwangler’s 1944 recording is swifter than...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Glass Heroes Symphony; (The) Light

Philip Glass’s Heroes Symphony (1996) was his second stab at creating an extended structure from the songs of David Bowie....

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 6/2007

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6; Bass Tuba Concerto

Believe it or not, Bryden Thomson's performance of the Sixth Symphony is faster than either Boult's or Previn's, two minutes...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Busoni String Quartets

As always with Busoni, ignore the opus numbers (he seems to have made a regular habit of going back to...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1996

Scelsi Choral Works

Judging by the dates of these pieces (1958-73) , choral music seems to have occupied Scelsi for a relatively short...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/1999

Scandinavian Orchestral Works

So far as Peer Gynt is concerned we now have to consider three different categories on record. There are more...

Reviewed in issue 9/1991

Works for Guitar and Orchestra

Eduardo Fernandez both understands and relishes every facet of Arnold's Guitar Concerto as is clear from his annotation. It is...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1991

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