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Wagner Preludes & Orchestral Music

This well-recorded and beautifully played Wagner programme is certainly enjoyable, but it is not really distinctive, and it shows the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1998

Schubert Lieder Recital

No texts are supplied, but Keith Anderson's insert-notes follow the programme from song to song, briefly outlining the subject-matter of...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Liszt & Mussorgsky Orchestral Works

The work in common to all three of these reissues, as can be seen above, is Les preludes, and very...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1991

Stanford Requiem Op 63

Glowingly welcomed in The Gramophone on its original issue, this first recording of a late-Victorian masterpiece gains the well-deserved chance...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2004

Nares (8) Harpsichord Setts

James Nares (1715-83) was organist at York Minster for 21 years, and subsequently served at the Chapel Royal as Master...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2008

Zelenka: Orchestral Works

This three-CD package contains all the extant orchestral music by Zelenka. Here to a greater extent, even than in the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1989

Brahms Chamber Works

These works date from 1890 and 1891, the last decade of Brahms's life, but while the Clarinet Quintet has a...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991

Poulenc Chamber Works

Since the first appearance of this collection (on LP) in 1976 and its reissue, with additions, five years later, almost...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1989

Wagner Siegfried

A couple of glitches aside, the second instalment of Et’cetera’s live Amsterdam Ring, the first to be based on the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 8/2007

Strauss, R An Alpine Symphony in Images

Turning music into ‘multi-media’ isn’t new, but it is taking on new life with the soaring popularity of DVD and...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 12/2003

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