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Stravinsky Symphony in E flat & Firebird Suite

Stravinsky’s youthful debts to Tchaikovsky ring out loud and clear in the Largo third movement of this spacious and uncharacteristically...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Tippett A Child of our time

These three recordings of Tippett's early oratorio present the first-time buyer with a problem. The work itself is problematic enough,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1987

Myaskovsky; Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos

I’ve always thought of Vadim Repin as among the most gifted of younger Russian-born violinists, even on the evidence of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2003

Mozart Works for Oboe and Orchestra

I have to say at once that the new and well-recorded Novalis disc suffers from a handicap throughout in the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Gershwin Overtures

This recording, like its companion ''Kiri Sings Gershwin'' (reviewed on page 608), was made possible by the recent discovery of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1987

Bridge Piano Trios

It has taken more than five years for this enterprising anthology to reach the shops. Fortunately, the wait has been...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2000

Schurmann Orchestral Works

Gerard Schurmann has been an American resident for over ten years now. During his time in Britain in the 1960s...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Sibelius Symphony No 7;Rakastava;En saga;Kullervo

Those who recall Sir Colin Davis’s performance with the LSO of Kullervo at London’s Barbican Centre in 1992 (subsequently televised)...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1997

Weber Overtures

Claves give us both Berlioz’s famous orchestration of Invitation to the Dance as well as conductor Felix Weingartner’s altogether more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1998

Wolf-Ferrari Susanna's Secret

“A clean-cut gem in its way it is, and cheerful withal”. Thus said the Daily Telegraph in 1919 when the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2010

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