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Sawyers, P Orchestral Works

Philip Sawyers is a British composer, violinist and teacher now in his late fifties. As a result of an American...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2011

Cui (A) Feast in Time of Plague

Pushkin’s ‘Little Tragedies’ have been a fruitful source for little operas, embodying as they do what Philip Taylor calls in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2004

Ravel: Mélodies

A ministerial Department of Recording Schedules is not a pleasant thought, but it might—just might—manage to avoid such a situation...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Penderecki/Van de Vate Orchestral Works

All that one gains from the CD insert sheet about Nancy Van de Vate is that she was born in...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1990

Schubert Piano Transcriptions

For this young Finnish prize-winning pianist to make his recorded début in so challenging and enterprising a programme is deeply...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003

Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

The BBC Legends series has already given us classic Mahler from Horenstein, Britten and Barbirolli. Rudolf Kempe’s Mahlerian credentials are...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Tubin Symphonies Nos 1 & 8

Vividly scored and dynamically expressive, Tubin’s symphonies span almost his entire creative career. The First, only his third orchestral score,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2003

The Beggar's Opera 1968 London Cast

Primarily a memento of Toby Robertson's production of 1968, this has attractions that are certainly not limited to those who...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Sibelius Cantatas and Orchestral Music

Occasional works by composers famous in other genres are often problematic, largely because the nature of such commissions forces a...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2000

Geminiani: Concertos & Sonatas

With this recording, the Purcell Quartet reach the mid-point in their six-part series of chamber music based on La folia,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

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