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Happy Birthday

Between the track listing and the booklet note for this entertaining, if in some respects, quizzical release comes an oddball...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2003

Bosmans; Bridge Works for Cello and Piano

A new name to me (and, I suspect, to most readers), Henriëtte Bosmans (1895-1952) was born in Amsterdam. Her father,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2008

Schubert/Liszt Wanderer Fantasy

A plausible programme let down by Westenholz’s often straitjacketed playing and a two-dimensional recording. The closing fugato passages in the...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1998

Szymanowski King Roger; Harnasie

Both front and back of the box containing this pair of CDs imply that the complete Harnasie ballet is included,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1989

Wallfisch Escape Velocity

At the relatively tender age of 27, Benjamin Wallfisch has already begun to make his mark. Being a member of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2007

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

Although Barenboim and colleagues on DG have the composer's imprimatur for their accomplished and vital performance most listeners, I am...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1989

Hindemith/Schulhoff/Weill String Quartets

All three works bear witness to a culture that, in terms of tempo and sensation, was in the process of...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Haydn Symphonies Nos 88 - 92

No period instruments, of course; but first and second violins are antiphonally separated, instrumental balancing is mostly impeccable (the brass...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2007

Toscanini - The Maestro

Peter Rosen’s film was made in 1985. It appeared on video in 1991. Here it is again, packaged in two...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2004

English Ballet Music

It is a joy to welcome, at last on CD, a major British ballet score (comparable in appeal to Walton's...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991

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