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Villa-Lobos Piano Works Vol 3

It is left to pianists, one Argentinean, one Brazilian, to carry the torch for South America’s greatest, most profligate composer....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2003

Weill (The) Firebird of Florence

Composers are often not the best judges of their work, and where The Firebrand of Florence was concerned, Kurt Weill...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2004

Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmila

Even granted that the production is Russian (filmed at the Maryinsky in 1995) it seems to a modern viewer to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2003

Mozart Symphonies Vol. 7

Mozart’s “Little” G minor Symphony is the most famous of a string of dramatic symphonies in that key written by...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2009

Tubin Kratt

One ‘of the most shining pearls of the whole of 20th-century music’ is how Vardo Rumessen values Kratt (‘Goblin’), Eduard...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2006

Vierne: 24 Pièces de fantaisie

Unlike the 24 Pieces en style libre which are arranged in ascending chromatic order, the Pieces de fantaisie, which also...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1990

Lilburn Symphonies

Now here's a find! I confess to having been totally unfamiliar with the output of New Zealand's elder statesman of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994

Mahler Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

In compiling their Claudio Abbado ‘cycle’ of Mahler symphonies (12/95), DG invariably chose the remake wherever an earlier Abbado version...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Haydn/Schubert Symphonies

This is a pleasantly fresh, unpretentious account of Schubert's most engaging symphony: lively in the two outer movements and with...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1986

Milhaud Chamber Music for winds and piano

This is a neatly planned LP, with one piece ecch for flute, oboe and clarinet with piano, then all four...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984

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