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Britten, Finzi & Holst Choral works

Here is a fine companionable disc. In sober truth, if I were in trouble and looking for fellowship in music...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Spohr Chamber Works

Spohr's two most popular chamber works go well together, here in performances that come closer to a lyrical, reflective, even...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1995

R Strauss Die Schweigsame Frau

That ardent and devoted Straussian, William Mann, slated this production (in Opera) when he saw it at its premiere in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2000

Krenek: String Quartets

My 'innocent ear' impression of these two quartets was of a strikingly original talent gradually losing its direction under the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Bach Cantatas, Vol 5

Our Pilgrimage travels to Rendsburg and Braunschweig for a selection from Bach’s “golden years” of vocal writing, 1723-25. The immediacy...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2008

Chopin; Mendelssohn Piano Works

Alicia de Larrocha’s playing captures an earlier era‚ and her regal poise‚ warm full tone‚ and above all her luminous...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

For Ockeghem

This touchingly named recital tells of the man behind the music, whose death the Hilliard Ensemble commemorated in a live...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1997

Honegger Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4

Here are goodish but ultimately uncompetitive performances from the Zurich orchestra and Daniel Schweizer. Their account of the Second Symphony...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1998

Beethoven Pastoral Symphony; Leonore Overture No. 3

So far, Christoph von Dohnanyi's Beethoven symphonies don't appear to have generated much enthusiasm in these pages. After one hearing...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 11/1987

Kraft Orchestral Works

As the composer William Kraft is also renowned as a superb percussionist (he was for many years a member of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1994

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