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Sibelius Orchestral Works

Now that Accardo's Philips version is out of the catalogue, there is only one alternative set of all six Humoresques...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1992

Bellini La Sonnambula

The occasion of Dame Joan Sutherland’s seventieth birthday in November 1996 has prompted Decca to reissue these opera sets from...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/1997

Musica Mexicana, Volume 7 - Chavez

Those who may have been deterred by some of Chavez’s often astringent and acerbic music now have the opportunity, with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1996

Trumpet and Organ Spectacular

Cards on the table straight away. The more I hear of trumpet and organ the more unsatisfactory and uninspiring I...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1992

Widor Organ Symphony No 4

I expressed reservations about Joseph Nolan’s debut CD (1/03), both from the playing and programming points of view. This disc...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 3/2005

Cello & Piano Works

Try the first 25 seconds of this CD on a musical friend and ask that friend who the composer is,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990

Busoni Piano Works, Vol 1

This is one of the finest issues of piano music by Busoni that I have heard since Geoffrey Douglas Madge's...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1994

Leontyne Price - Rediscovered Carnegie Hall Concert

Please turn the clock back 37 years! How one would love to have been present at this memorable evening. By...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2002

Grieg and Svendsen Orchestral Works

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra made their American debut on record many years ago, but UK collectors have only been able...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Ravel Daphnis et Chloé Ballet

Haitink, mainly with the Concertgebouw, has shown himself a deeply sympathetic conductor of French impressionist music, and here he directs...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1990

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