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Elgar Orchestral Works

A Falstaff to rank with the finest on disc. Handley's clear-headed, wonderfully affectionate conception is entirely winning. Chosen tempos are...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1993

Berlioz Orchestral Works

Of these four new discs of the Symphonie fantastique to add to the 15 already listed, the one which predictably...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1988

Schumann Paradies und die Peri

''My biggest work and I hope my best'' was how Schumann assessed his Paradise and the Peri shortly after its...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1990

Triumph of Maximilian Songs and Instrumental Music from 16th Century Germany

As Philip Thorby mentions in his notes, Ludwig Senfl has not yet received the recognition that he deserves; and as...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 6/1999

Walton. Orchestral & Choral Works

Simon Rattle's achievements with the CBSO in recent years owe much to the work of Louis Fremaux, who made the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

JS Bach Keyboard Concertos

What comes across irresistibly in this new recording is the physical pleasure of playing Bach on a piano. Rhythms are...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2011

R. Strauss Lieder; Oboe Concerto

This is one of the more desirable issues in the BBC Radio Classics series, not least because it adds to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996

Albéniz Merlin

When Decca issued its outstanding recording of Albéniz’s Merlin (12/00), the first of a projected trilogy of Arthurian operas in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2004

Beethoven Songs from the British Isles

One does not usually fancy that it would be seemly or even thinkable to nod to Beethoven in the street,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Alfred Cortot as Conductor

As a very small, Bach-loving child I got to know the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto from Alfred Cortot's 1932 recording on...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1993

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