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Alwyn Song Cycles

Both of these cycles are finely written settings of poems for which the composer had a special affection, and they...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Bach: Organ Works

In Leonhardt's programme two 'abstract' works (BWV913 and 533) frame a variety of chorale arrangements, the main-frame of which is...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1990

Bach Organ Works, Vol. 3

Bach’s Trio Sonatas are, in many organists’ minds, all about co-ordination. Certainly nowhere else in the entire repertoire is one...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1996

Mendelssohn Symphonies 3 & 4

The new disc celebrates Tamas Vasary's debut on record as a symphonic conductor, and it seems to me a great...

Reviewed in issue 12/1989

Debussy Piano Works

Debussy’s 12 Etudes are surely the ultimate example of the genre. Chopin’s mastery notwithstanding, no composer has turned the severest...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1997

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

The versions of Antar listed for comparison above come in sets of Rimsky-Korsakov's three symphonies; and if Antar alone is...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990

Sibelius/Prokofiev/Glazunov Orchestral Works

It is not easy to see the reasoning here. The Sibelius Seventh could surely have been better accommodated alongside, say,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1996

Telemann Six Oboe Concertos - Volume 1

Few composers have written as rewardingly for the oboe as Telemann so it is surprising that until now no artist...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1993

Rossini Masses

It is astonishing that we should have two recordings within the course of a year of a hitherto little-known and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1996

Works for Horn & Orchestra

Here is another example of a fairly enticing full-price CD, which contains interesting repertoire, but simply not enough of it....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1987

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