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English String Music

Hickox's Introduction and Allegro is both splendidly shaped and finely disciplined. There's a sense of spontaneous freshness and warm-hearted affection...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1993

Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony

Yan Pascal Tortelier’s distinguished series of Dutilleux recordings for Chandos arouses high expectations for his Turangalila, and it does indeed...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1998

Ustvolskaya Piano Sonatas

After decades of neglect, the stern and unbending music of Galina Ustvolskaya has been winning new friends at such a...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Rameau La Princesse de Navarre

Yet another precious Rameau recording has emerged from the vaults of Erato in Paris. This time it’s La Princesse de...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1996

Gershwin; Grofé Orchestral Works

Ferdy (sometimes called Ferdie) Grofe was one of Paul Whiteman’s regular arrangers, and as such was entrusted with Gershwin’s Rhapsody...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1998

Janácek Sárka

This is a thrilling discovery, both in terms of work and performance. Sarka is the first of Janacek's operas, written...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994

Great Conductors - Bruno Walter

Absorbing documents these, though the magnetism is less in the music than in the men who made it. Indeed, you...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2003

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition. Stravinsky Firebird

The current Gramophone Compact Disc Guide and Catalogue lists four versions of the Mussorgsky and four of the complete Firebird....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1985

Chopin: Piano works

Andrea Lucchesini was born as recently as 1965, in Italy, and this is not his first record for the sleeve...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

Tavener Mary of Egypt

''Mary is like two hours in a warm bath,'' wrote my colleague on The Independent on Sunday. Perhaps, when all...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1993

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