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Schoenberg/Webern Orchestral Works

Three of the four works on this disc were first issued as couplings to Riccardo Chailly's recordings of the Brahms...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1994

Baroque Violin Works

Lyricism and relaxation are not lacking in Monica Huggett's playing in the Bach sonatas, as NA justly found them to...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1987

Kathleen Ferrier - BBC4 Documentary

This much-praised profile, seen more than once on BBC2 and BBC4 last year to mark the half-century since the great...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2004

Harvey Madonna of Winter and Spring; Percussion Concerto; Song Offerings;

This is an impressive disc indeed: a strong cast, a varied programme, and music of great integrity and beauty. One...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000

Liszt Works for piano and orchestra

All too often we are offered the concertos alone, whereas here the Hungarian Fantasia is included. This involves Concerto No....

Reviewed in issue 6/1984

Janácek Lachian Dances; Taras Bulba

For collectors the novelty here is the Cunning Little Vixen excerpts, not as in Václav Talich’s familiar Suite but in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2009

Larcher Madhares

These three works by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher date from the past decade: Böse Zellen is a concerto for prepared...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2010

Warlock Songs

Both these discs have been retrieved from other labels, the first from Koch International, the second from Collins Classics. Such...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2003

Schumann Dichterliebe & Kerner-Lieder

It is possible (though I don't quite see how) to love Fischer-Dieskau's records and not particularly want to play them....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2000

Bridge; Elgar; Walton Works for String Quartet

The Elgar and Walton Quartets make an apt and attractive coupling, as several rivals have demonstrated, notably the Britten Quartet,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1994

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