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John Harle's Saxophone

From Bizet’s L’arlésienne on, French composers adopted the timbre of the saxophone naturally as yet another orchestral colour. British composers...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2004

Bowen Piano Music, Vol 2

Joop Celis’s second volume in his cycle of York Bowen’s piano music is as triumphant as his first (5/05). The...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2007

Bartók Orchestral & Vocal Works

A disc to rank alongside other Chicago Bartok classics, such as Dorati's mono The miraculous mandarin Suite (Mercury, 2/55—nla) and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/1993

Marcello Giordani - Tenor Arias

A solo recital on CD is no doubt at the top of every up-and-coming tenor’s prayer-list; but it can be...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2004

Schumann Piano Works

Though in the UK still best­known and acclaimed for earlier classical repertory‚ elsewhere – not forgetting the Salzburg Festival –...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Bach Cantatas

Followers of this splendid series of reissues will already have gathered why Erato feel compelled to continue their quick-fire release...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1996

Great Operatic Arias

The review (4/98) of the recital by Bruce Ford of arias for lyric tenor expressed a hope that it might...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Kennedy plays Kreisler

When I was a youngster, my parents would reminisce about Kreisler while my own generation listened to Jimi Hendrix. Now...

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

Mahler Symphony No 5

Unfairly perhaps we tend not to think of Zubin Mehta as an echt Mahlerian although this is the third time...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2009

Mozart Cosi fan tutte (arr for Wind Quintet)

Entertainment or sacrilege? That rather depends on the subject matter. The dramatic content of Beethoven’s Fidelio is trivialised in Wendel...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2000

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