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Krommer Concerto for Two Clarinets; Spohr Clarinet Concertos Nos 2 & 4

Spohr depended for an example as much on his admired clarinettist Johann Hermstedt as Mozart did on Stadler, Weber on...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2007

Ravel Orchestral Works

I praised this record highly in its original LP format and on CD as on LP, the climax of Bolero...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1986

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

In 1989 there appeared, in Roger Norrington's EMI version with the London Classical Players, the first performance of the Symphonie...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993

Terezín Music Anthology, Volume 2

No sooner had the Hawthorne Quartet's marvellous Decca coupling of Krasa and Haas (3/94) sent me back to their pioneering...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Joubert: Piano Works

Anyone who has enjoyed the popular carol Torches or the lovely There is no rose must have wondered what else...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Hurlstone Orchestral Works

What a grievous loss to British music was William Hurlstone's early demise (a 30-year-old victim of bronchial asthma); happily, this...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1993

A Way A Lone

Three very different minds grappling with the intricacies of four-way musical dialogue. Takemitsu, a habitual aesthete wandering in the thick...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Khachaturian Piano Works

Were it not that the tenth anniversary of Khachaturian's death is approaching, and that anniversaries provide apparently irresistible pegs for...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1987

R R Bennett Equus - film score

Rykodisc’s series of vintage soundtracks has been blossoming over the past few months, and here The Misfits (1961) provides further...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Works for Flute and Piano

Those who have criticized James Galway for his choice of repertory should take note of this unusual and attractive Czech...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989

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