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Delius Orchestral Works

It's time for Delians who secretly love this early one-movement Piano Concerto to stand up and be counted: the meditative...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1992

Balakirev Symphony 2 etc

Recognition of Balakirev’s genius has been slow – accentuated, no doubt, by his difficult and vituperative personality. Even today, outstanding...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1999

Beethoven String Quartets No 3; No 5; No 16

Promise blossoms. The Artemis Quartet’s previous recording (of Op 18 No 1 and Op 127 – 12/10) was, despite a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2011

Emil Gilels plays Tchaikovsky

This label’s presentation is a disgrace: nothing on the music, soloist, conductors or provenance of the recordings (both dating from...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2011

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2

It looked wonderful on paper, but as so often with Olympian encounters, the evidence proved frustratingly uneven. The trouble is,...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Orchestral works by Ireland and Bridge

All these works are small in scale and modest in their emotional range, but they make a highly enjoyable collection....

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

Tansman Orchestral Works

This disc scores highly on the rarity-value scale, but I suspect that only one of the works was really worth...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1993

Poulenc Les Dialogues des Carmelites

Kent Nagano and his Lyon forces may well follow their Gramophone Award-winning success of 1990—The love for three oranges—with another...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1992

Stiles Just So

Composer George Stiles and writer Anthony Drewe seem at home with the adventurous and imaginative in their musicals, as with...

Reviewed by jsnelson in issue: 8/2006

Nørgård Siddharta; For a Change

As in his second opera, Gilgamesh (1971-2), Per Norgard chose an ancient, legendary figure as the central character of his...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

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