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Allgén Fantasia

Sorabji, Ives, Tveitt and Alkan resonate through the career of Claude Loyola - born Klaus-Thure Allgen (1920-90) - though his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2000

Hindemith; Milhaud; Ysaÿe Viola Works

Milhaud’s Quatre visages, composed in 1943 for the Pro Arte Quartet’s viola-player Germain Prévost, is a miniature suite offering generalised...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2010

Castelnuovo-Tedesco/Dallapiccola Piano Works

Piano music forms a small but revealing part of Dallapiccola’s output, whether in the crystalline poise of the Sonatina canonica,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/1999

Lamenti

Emmanuelle Haïm here follows up her Monteverdi disc, “Combattimento” (2/07), with a selection of laments by Monteverdi and his contemporaries....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 1/2009

Mozart Symphony No 40; 'Idomeneo' Ballet Music

No accusations here of hackneyed Mozart programming. Instead of coupling Symphony No 40 with No 39 or the Jupiter, Cleveland’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2010

Berlioz Orchestral Works

These radio recordings of Beecham in full flight could not be more welcome, particularly when his studio recordings of Berlioz...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Spontini La Vestale

We have waited long for a recording of this crucial work in the history of French opera, a tragedie-lyrique that...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Norwegian Imperatives

A chain of teacher-pupil relationships links the four composers in Håkon Austbø’s recital of quasi-modernist Norwegian piano music. As in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2010

Delius Songs and Piano Works

Until a few years ago, Delius the songwriter was known only by a handful of examples. But some enterprising recordings...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Berlioz Romeo et Juliette; Symphonie funebre et triomphale

Another feather in the Dutoit/Montreal/Decca cap, not least for the sound engineers' achievement in so brilliantly capturing the mammoth sonorities...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1986

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