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Mahler Das klagende Lied

Mahler grows up fast in this volatile, tensile reading of his first 'child of sorrow'. Orchestrally, the teenage radical finds...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/1992

Benjamin Symphony No. 1; Ballade

Arthur Benjamin is known to most of us for his Jamaican Rumba. Not surprisingly his First Symphony is not a...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1997

Sounds of St Giles's

This is an attractive and varied programme, very well recorded. The choral works are given polished, vibrant performances with sympathetic...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 4/1999

Alfred Deller Vanguard Edtion, Vol 1 - Folk Songs and Ballads

Seven discs, 168 items: and this is only Vol 1. Deller is most widely known and commonly remembered on records...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2009

Messiaen Piano Works

The fifth and final volume of Peter Hill's Messiaen survey is as distinguished as its predecessors. I can understand him...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1994

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas 1 & 2

Rachmaninov's Preludes and his Etudes-Tableaux are a well known and established part of the pianist's repertory, but his two sonatas...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 6/1989

Rachmaninov Orchestral Works

No disrespect to the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, but Tadaaki Otaka is turning over a respectable profit from modest assets....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1993

Gurney Songs

You might count Ivor Gurney as the “lost British composer”. Tragically, he died in 1937 having spent most of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2009

Fasch Overtures

Whether Bach often heard his music performed at a level considered acceptable today is a moot point. It’s more likely...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2005

Taverner Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas

Taverner's six-voice Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas is surely one of the finest masterpieces of early Tudor music and, as the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1986

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