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Mozart Symphonies 29 & 33

These performances, at once lively and refined, benefit from the extra touch of clarity that CD has to offer. Comparing...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1986

Haydn & Mozart Sinfonias concertantes

This coupling of the Mozart wind Sinfonia Concertante with the Haydn Sinfonia Concertante, also involving four soloists (two of them...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987

Scott FG Moonstruck: Songs

Hawick-born Francis George Scott (1880‑1958) was essentially self-taught as a composer, intially studying English at Edinburgh University and only belatedly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2007

Strauss, R Alpine Symphony

Once a rarity in both concert hall and recording studio, these days Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is positively ubiquitous, accommodating –...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2010

Sibelius Kullervo

Another month, another Kullervo…After Robert Spano's Atlanta recording gave us Sibelius's early nationalist pot-boiler in Telarc's signature “pure spring water”...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 2/2007

Richard Lloyd - British Church Composers Series, Vol 8

Much of this music dates from the years during which Richard Lloyd was organist at Durham Cathedral. But unlike so...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/2007

Mozart Wind Serenades

These outstanding soloists from the Berlin Philharmonic, including the oboist Hansjorg Schellenberger and the clarinettist Karl Leister, give satisfyingly clean...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1985

Rachmaninov Piano Works

With several fine complete sets of the Preludes and Etudes-tableaux on the market there is room for an intelligently planned...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994

Debussy Preludes

If the quality of finesse lies at the centre of Debussy's art, then Alain Planes's performance, for all its underlying...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2000

Alwyn Orchestral Works

I wrote about the composer's own fine Lyrita recordings of the Second Symphony as recently as last October. That disc...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1993

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