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Loewe: Lieder

Loewe seems these days to be earning more and more attention from Lieder artists. For too long, most records of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1989

Honegger Chamber Works

During the inter-war years, Honegger was regarded m some quarters as a ma)or contemporary composer worthy to be spoken of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1993

Taneyev Orchestral Works

The official verdict, carved in granite by Rimsky-Korsakov in My Musical Life, is still echoed whenever Sergei Taneyev's name is...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1992

Leoni L'Oracolo

Hokum, but any opera that begins with three crashes, a very loud cock-crow, a chorus shouting in fake-Chinese and then...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1997

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 etc

Both these new CD versions of Beethoven's last sonata feature Bosendorfer Imperials, but it is the American recording from Delos,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1985

Davis The Life and Times of Malcolm X

A problematic new release. American composer Anthony Davis has in this new work attempted a fresh stirring of the interdisciplinary...

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 4/1993

W. Wordsworth: Chamber works

The recordings on this British Music Society cassette were first issued on LP in 1966. Twenty years on the sound...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1986

French Wind Trios

High-class wind playing, realistically engineered. The three members of the Chicago Chamber Musicians performing on this generous anthology are all...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1999

Klami - Northern Lights

Uuno Klami (1900-1961) once declared his orchestral fantasy Revontulet (“Northern Lights”, 1943-46) to be his best work. For all the...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2010

Paganini Violin Concerto No 1; Spohr Violin Concerto No 8

After nearly 200 years Paganini still poses considerable challenges but Hilary Hahn’s superior technique surmounts them easily, the highest and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2006

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