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Janácek Moravian Folksongs

Janacek reckoned that he collected over 3,000 folk-songs as a young man tramping across Moravia with his friend Frantisek Bartos...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1995

Shostakovich Symphony no.7

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony (perhaps we should stop calling it Leningrad; the composer himself withdrew the title) used to be the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1987

Ornstein Piano Works

A composer­pianist who shared teachers with Horowitz and Prokofiev‚ whose family emigrated to escape Tsarist anti­semitism‚ who enjoyed a reputation...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Lutoslawski Orchestral Works, Volume 3

If you are collecting Naxos’s super-bargain Lutoslawski releases this, the third in the series, should be of particular interest, containing...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1997

Ligeti Works for Piano, Two Pianos and Piano Four Hands

Ligeti’s continuing series of piano Etudes is one of the few compositions from the past quarter-century to be approaching repertory...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2004

Bach Cantatas BWV82, 102 and 178

This disc, the first in a new series, exemplifies Sigiswald Kuijken’s highly selective and considered approach to Bach’s cantatas. By...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2006

Locatelli Concerti Grossi

Pietro Antonio Locatelli, born in Bergamo in 1695, was trained in Rome and lived from 1729 in Amsterdam. The 24...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1996

Finzi/Howells Vocal Works

An axiom in the aesthetics of eschatology has it that Hell is good value and Paradise rather a liability. Perhaps...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Clucas Choral Works

Written by a lifelong chorister (now a tenor at Westminster Abbey) and performed by a choir of 22 young experts,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Bazimakoo

It’s common enough for reviewers simply not to review a disc that falls well short of the mark. In this...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2008

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