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Dvorák; Mendelssohn; Mozart; Wolf Works for String Orchestra

There are three string-playing conductors whose recorded interpretations are guaranteed to deliver some measure of delight: Pablo Casals, Alexander Schneider...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2006

Ives Universe Symphony; Symphony No. 2

Ives never finished his Universe Symphony but he left sketches and an open invitation for others to do so. David...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2004

McCabe Edward II

Commissioned by the Stuttgart Ballet, choreographed by David Bintley and first given in April 1995, Edward II is the third...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2000

French Works for Organ & Orchestra

Both Martinon and Marie-Claire Alain have recorded the Organ Symphony on at least one other occasion—Martinon with Bernard Gavoty as...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

R. Strauss Tone Poems

Only last year, Virgin Classics issued Edo de Waart's fine accounts of Strauss's Sinfonia domestica and the early Suite for...

Reviewed in issue 1/1993

'Round M - Monteverdi meets Jazz

La Venexiana have recorded most of Monteverdi’s secular works, including the madrigals and his first and last operas, their account...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2010

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

With a huge number of versions of Vivaldi’s hardy perennial currently available it seems extraordinary that record companies can still...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1998

Mozart Die Zauberflöte

With so many hopes placed on the first Norrington recording of a Mozart opera and the first of the Flute...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1991

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - György Cziffra

Faced with Cziffra’s tumultuous and rapacious virtuosity the critic reels into schizophrenia, awed and confused, dazzled and nonplussed. The performances...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1999

Maw Odyssey

You will look in vain for the name of Nicholas Maw (b. 1935) in the current Master Edition of The...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991

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