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Celluloid Copland

Copland was nothing if not intensely practical, a fact certainly not lost on the planners of the 1939 World’s Fair...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2001

Nancarrow Studies for Player Piano

Last year I gave an enthusiastic welcome to Volumes 3 and 4 of Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano (7/91) and...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1992

Fayrfax Complete Works, Vol. 1

Apart from the recent recordings of music from The Eton Choirbook by The Sixteen and Eton College Choir, English sacred...

Reviewed in issue 6/1995

Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch

I made so many notes favourable to this issue that I find it hard now to know where to begin...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1996

Arabesque Romantic Harp Music of the 19th Century

All the music is played on the harp, and with the possible exception of Anon, was written in the nineteenth...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1984

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Op 64. Octet, Op 20

After a warmly praised CBS debut recording of the Mendelssohn concerto with the New York Philharmonic way back in 1969...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1985

Stravinsky Petrouchka; Scherzo à la Russe; Firebird Suite

Recorded in the Music Hall, Cincinnati in March last year, this is a remarkably self-effacing recording, conveying an impression of...

Reviewed by ihumphreys in issue: 13/2003

Bernstein (The) Making of 'West Side Story'

This is the famous – or notorious – documentary about the ‘operatic’ recording of Bernstein’s best­loved work‚ a considerable popular...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Stenhammar Orchestral Works

Nowadays there is surely no doubt of Stenhammar's standing as without question the most important Swedish composer after Berwald. Mind...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1992

Barraqué Clarinet Concerto; Temps restitué

Jean Barraque (1928–73) was a remarkable exponent of that elusive and increasingly unfashionable modernist art of making apparently disparate fragments...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1988

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