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Works for Cello and Orchestra

It's refreshing to come across a programme which is just that bit different, and I don't think I have previously...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Maconchy Complete String Quartets

When Elizabeth Maconchy began her first string quartet in 1932, Vaughan Williams was in the ascendant, and Benjamin Britten had...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2004

French Orchestral Works

Lucy Parham was the BBC's Young Musician of the Year in 1984 and has been building her career since then,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1994

Echoes of Paris

This imaginative recital disc dips into the bubbling cauldron of artistic ideas that distinguished Paris in the early decades of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 4/2011

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 1 and 3

Sir Mark Elder’s studio recording of the First Symphony arrives hard on the heels of Sir Colin Davis’s concert version...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2009

Lully Acis et Galatée

Acis et Galatee was Lully’s last completed opera, and one of his greatest. A pastoral heroique performed in 1686 to...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 13/1998

Chausson; Franck Symphonies

It is apt that this excellent new version of the Franck Symphony, the most important orchestral work by the greatest...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2006

Arensky String Quartet & Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence

Good to hear Souvenir de Florence played as chamber music, with finesse as well as passion. The finale feels like...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/1998

Bach Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, Vol 1

Look at what Bach said: ‘Six sonatas for obbligato harpsichord and solo violin with a bass accompanied by a viola...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2005

Lang, B (Die) Sterne des Hungers

That supremely dystopian Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard once described Christine Lavant’s writing as “testimony to a destroyed world”. In building...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2011

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