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Mahler Symphony No 3

Haitink's re-recording of Mahler's epic offers a more substantial challenge to existing recommendations than Leif Segerstam's game attempt on Chandos....

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Bach Cantatas

Alas, by the time this piece appears the Advent season of the church year will be over, yet, of course,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1993

Lindberg, M Clarinet Concerto; Gran Duo; Chorale

The clarinet has featured prominently as a solo instrument in Magnus Lindberg’s output throughout his career, though it was only...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2005

Mendelssohn Lieder

It is always a pleasure to hear an artist when she or he is at the zenith of their powers....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1993

Vainberg Orchestral Works

Moisei Vainberg is a somewhat enigmatic figure in Russian musical life. He eludes English (though not American) reference books; in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1994

Wagner (The) Ring - excerpts

My fantasy Wagner festival would take place in Bayreuth but, wonderful as the orchestra playing there so often is, it...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2006

Strauss, R Enoch Arden

The traditions of speaking with and over music gained a new lease of life in 19th-century bourgeois drawing rooms, fed...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2007

Rockwell Blake, the Mozart Tenor

''The fastest voice in the West''. This is a description of Rockwell Blake's art quoted in the publicity handout for...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Myaskovsky Complete Symphonic Works, Vol 4: Symphonies Nos 4 and 11

With these fourth and fifth instalments of Olympia’s Miaskovsky cycle‚ the composer’s twin­track creative trajectory comes more clearly into focus....

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Gerald Moore - The Unashamed Accompanist

In his book of memoirs, Farewell Recital (Hamish Hamilton: 1978), the most famous accompanist of his time (and of the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

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