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Best Loved Hymns

Here is the high art of hymnody. No tentative playover on the stopped diapason while knee-joints crack and fingers fumble...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Milhaud Orchestral Works

Some attractive Milhaud discs are coming my way during the composer's centenary year. I suspect few people know that he...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1992

French Organists play their own works

It is convenient, but entirely fanciful, to suggest that a composer performing his own music in person provides the definitive...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1994

Paganini Caprices

Fifty years ago only half a dozen or so fiddlers would have had the technical expertise to record the complete...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1994

Piano Works During and After Russian Futurism Vol 1

Russia’s Silver Age, the last cultural flowering of Tsarism, was an astonishing period of creativity in all the arts, though,...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2009

Haydn Missa in tempore belli;Salve Regina etc

Bruno Weil and his forces bring a characteristic freshness and verve to Haydn’s great “Mass in time of war”, with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1996

Boccherini Flute Quintets

These quintets come from a set of six in a Madrid manuscript with an attribution to Boccherini: they are not...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1998

Prokofiev Piano Works

Born in 1949, Evgeni Koroliov is another fine pianist from that seemingly inexhaustible pool of talent nurtured in the old...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2000

Debussy Orchestral works

The absence of a true pp in La mer, which I remarked on when reviewing the LP version of this...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1985

Diamond Orchestral Works

David Diamond of the 1940s—eager, impressionable, modal. Fresh from Boulanger in Paris, the First Symphony vaults from the launch pad...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1994

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