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Rachmaninov Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Having recorded the much better known All-Night Vigil (‘Vespers’) in 1999, King’s here turn to Rachmaninov’s earlier setting of the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 6/2004

American Music for Clarinet and Piano

John Cage’s In a Landscape is a masterpiece of oriental calm, and it’s nicely played here but the bass note...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2004

The Romantic Flute

Only one of the works recorded here is as the composer envisaged it, and that is Schubert’s set of variations...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1998

Hildegard Behrens: Song Recital

This is an uncoventional recital, unconventionally performed. Hildegard Behrens in her own note tells us that this is virtually the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1987

Cilea L'Arlesiana

Cilea was a late starter, and the start wasn't auspicious; indeed he gave up composing in his twenties after the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1992

Reger Violin Sonatas

Max Reger's last two violin sonatas are recorded here by the Swiss duo, Hansheinz Schneeberger (born in 1926, a pupil...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 5/1993

Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila

Parisians suffering the German Occupation at least had the chance to go to the Opera and see Helene Bouvier as...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 12/2000

Solère Clarinet Concertos

The Double Concerto especially ebullient, these are brightly coloured, highly attractive works, part virtuoso display, part pan-European travelogue, from clarinettist-turned-composer...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1999

Bach Cantatas, Vol 23

The seven cantatas here, nominally representing the works for the two Sundays after Easter, cover an unusual range from BWV150...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2007

Elgar Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata; String Quartet; Piano Quintet

Hugh Bean (1929-2003) was just nine when he became a pupil of Albert Sammons, and you can hear something of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2004

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