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Liszt A Faust Symphony

Riccardo Muti's performance of Liszt's orchestral masterpiece is in many respects admirable in its synthesis of drama, introspection and diablerie;...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 10/1991

Valen Symphonic Poems and Orchestral Songs

An important and most welcome reissue: the music of Fartein Valen (1887-1952) is far too little known outside Norway, although...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Mozart; Spohr Clarinet Concertos

Jon Manasse is a brilliant young American clarinettist who has made a name for himself on both sides of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2010

Gál Piano Works

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Hans Gál, the last great exponent of the Viennese Classical...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2007

Grimaud: Piano Recital

Following on from her really remarkable Rachmaninov CD (Denon CO-1054, 12/86), Helene Grimaud can be heard here in a second...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1988

Purcell King Arthur

Few works so handsomely reflect the glow of Restoration well-being than Purcell’s King Arthur where English sensibilities reign – and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2004

Wolf: Vocal Works

Even before Wolf had become interested in the Alarcon story on which he based his opera Der Corregidor (the same...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1991

Chopin Cello Waltzes, Vol 1

Chopin’s music, so beautifully conceived for the piano’s sonority and technique, is treacherous territory for an arranger. But a good...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2001

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; Miraculous Mandarin

A rewarding release that prompts a double-barrelled comparison, first with Sir Simon Rattle's identical coupling (a studio Miraculous Mandarin and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1995

Stanford Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

Although labelled Elegiac and prefaced with lines from Tennyson’s In memoriam, Stanford’s Second Symphony (composed in the summer of 1880)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2007

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