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Debussy; Dutilleux; Ravel String Quartets

Though formed as long ago as 1994, when the members were students of the Royal College of Music, the Belcea...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2001

Mozart Works for Flute and Orchestra

One advantage this new issue has over the two with James Galway as soloist is that it has an extra...

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Shostakovich Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

These Royal Festival Hall performances are classic examples of live recordings that paraxodically generate less excitement than one would expect...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2011

Delius Piano Concerto in C minor; Ireland Legend

Having already given us a scintillating version of Delius’s 1907 Piano Concerto with Vernon Handley and the RLPO (CfP, 11/95R),...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2006

Complete New English Hymnal, Vol 10

Whereas the recent disc by the choir of Wells Cathedral, ‘Hills of the North, rejoice!’ (Hyperion, 12/02), led with one...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003

Bach St Matthew Passion

When he reviewed the LPs of this recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, TH pointed out that Karl Richter's approach...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1985

Scottish Overtures

In discussing the original issue TH aptly commented that LPs of this kind do not usually make good continuous listening,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Nono Prometeo

Prometeo is a challenge to the faculty of listening; at least part of the meaning of its subtitle, ''tragedia dell'ascolto'',...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995

Alkan; Chopin Cello Sonatas

Alkan’s Sonata has been recorded several times before, most notably by Moray Welsh and Ronald Smith (APR), yet it has...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2008

Bridge Enter Spring; (2) Poems; (The) Sea; Summer

James Judd directs a hearty, sensibly paced account of Enter Spring, Bridge’s most uninhibited achievement and one of the pinnacles...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2004

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