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Fritz Wunderlich - Live on Stage

The pearl of great price: the German tenor who could make you wish to retract all you ever thought, wrote...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2011

Elgar Orchestral Works

The choice between the Gibson and Boult CDs, which have only the Pomp and Circumstance Marches in common, is difficult:...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Respighi Concertos

A harsh critic might well point out that the first movement of Respighi's early Concerto in A minor makes only...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1994

Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples, 5th century

For their first recording the Florilegio Ensemble from Italy have chosen a selection of pieces from a 15th­century music manuscript...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Respighi (5) Etudes-tableaux; Preludio, corale e fuga; Rossiniana

Few composers can rival Ottorino Respighi in his exploitation of orchestral sound, not least in his arrangements of other composers'...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2007

Danzi Complete Wind Quintets

No one in his senses would settle down to listen to nine wind quintets plus three piano and wind quintets...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2007

Chopin Preludes, Op 28; Szymanowski Preludes, Op 1

This enterprising juxtaposition of preludes by Poland’s two leading composers is fluently played by Ewa Kupiec, a pianist praised by...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1999

Sallinen: Orchestral Works

The music of Graham Fitkin (b. 1963) bears the stamp—often quite a heavy stamp—of his studies with repetitive music's European...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1986

Boulez Miscellaneous Works

This may not be the Boulez record needed most urgently by students and admirers of his music: that would contain...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1992

Poulenc Piano Works, Vol. 2

As in Eric Parkin's first volume of Poulenc pieces for Chandos (CHAN8637, 10/88), here again can be sensed this artist's...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1990

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