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Bruckner Symphony No 5 (Schalk Edition: 1894)

Hearing Leon Botstein and the LPO dancing their way through the savagely cut and extensively reorchestrated finale of Bruckner’s epic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1999

Mozart Divertimenti

Mozart's Divertimento, K287, is scored for two violins, viola, two horns and bass, a combination which cannot be easy to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Bartók Orchestral Works

As Jarvi so wholeheartedly reminds us, Bartok was never more self-indulgently effusive with his orchestral skills than in The wooden...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1991

Britten Paul Bunyan

Although Britten talked excitedly while composing Paul Bunyan about a Broadway production, it was in fact carefully written for the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2000

Concord of Sweet Sounds

Players of the flute (whether traverse or fipple) and lute certainly played together in pre-classical times, and the lute was...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1988

Baermann; Mendelssohn; Weber Clarinet Concertos

Heinrich Baermann (1784-1847) was the great clarinettist of his day, principal in the royal orchestra in Munich for most of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2002

Handel Tamerlano

The plot of Tamerlano may on the face of it seem a rather feeble one. But ultimately‚ at least at...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Brahms Complete Piano Variations

With one exception, Brahms's piano variations are early works, written in the decade ending in the year of his thirtieth...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Rameau Pièces de clavecin, Vol 2

This second recording in Sophie Yates’s Rameau series (the first was released four years ago, 12/00) has it all –...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2004

Sallinen Symphony No 6; Cello Concerto

Sallinen’s reputation rests mainly on his operas but his output covers most of the major genres from string quartets to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2010

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