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Handel Arias

If there is anything better than a Handel aria it is a collection of them. Nor is there anyone among...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Bernstein Orchestral Works

Yutaka Sado has already revealed an affinity with Bernstein’s music in his impressive coupling of the Third Symphony (Kaddish) and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2005

A Century of English Song, Volume 2

This is the second volume in a projected series of six, the first of which (3/95) concentrated on English song...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Dukelsky Zéphyr et Flore. Epitaphe.

The Russian-born composer Vladimir Dukelsky (1903-69) may not be a familiar name to many readers, but take a peek under...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/2000

Bach; Handel; Holst Wind Band Works

A justly-famous demonstration record in its LP form (although not submitted for review), the Compact Disc is, not unexpectedly, even...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1983

Bloch Violin Concerto; Baal Shem

Roughly contemporaneous with the second and finer of Bartók’s two violin concertos, Bloch’s Concerto is similar in scale and in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2008

Mahler (Des) Knaben Wunderhorn

There’s much to admire in this new version of a much-recorded work, not least Herreweghe’s keenly judged tempi and delicate,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2006

Stokowski Conducts - Rimsky-Korsakov/Stravinsky

Thinking back a few years, who would have guessed that by the late 1990s we would have four of Leopold...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Bach The Well Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2

There are some Bach performers who strive to impress by parading sensationally unorthodox approaches, however eccentric or egocentric (no names,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/1999

Gounod Faust

This is not the first transfer—Music Memoria springs to mind—from the 78rpm originals of this famous 1930 recording, but within...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

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