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Ravel; Strauss, R; Franck Violin Sonatas

Any lover of Romantic orchestral music who might think of the violin and piano duo as a spare‚ ascetic medium...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Bruckner Symphony No 9

This is an outstanding version of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony—and no surprise, given Barenboim's evident sympathy for the work in concert...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1991

Rossini Overtures

If anything were going to convince me of the justice of George Bernard Shaw’s remark that Rossini was ‘one of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2001

Dowland Treasures from my Minde

Catherine King, like many others, sometimes seems reluctant to disturb the liquid flow of her lines with consonants sufficiently explosive...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1999

Goehr Choral Works

Frank Kermode's text for the song-cycle Sing, Ariel is an achievement in itself: fragments of Auden, Shakespeare, Yeats, Pound, Hardy,...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1993

Sammartini (Il) Pianto degli Angeli della Pace

The text for Il pianto degli angeli della pace (1751) speaks of blood and violence, but the Introduction only hints...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2005

Franck Symphony & Symphonic Variations

There seem to be two schools of thought among conductors about how long the first movement of the Franck Symphony...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1987

Stravinsky (L')Oiseau de Feu; (La) Sacre du Printemps

The luminous colours and weightless harmonies of The Firebird sit more comfortably with the cultured Concertgebouw than the hard-edged primitivism...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/2008

Bliss Morning Heroes

EMI’s British Composers series already lists Sir Charles Groves’s own distinguished RLPO version of Morning Heroes, with John Westbrook an...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/1997

Baroque Viola Sonatas

It cannot be easy to assemble repertory for the so-called Cinderella of string instruments, but this collection of music from...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1995

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