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Review of Leigh: Orchestral works

Leigh: Orchestral works

Walter Leigh's discography, has seldom extended, at any one time, much beyond the Harpsichord Concertino, a favourite piece for many...

Reviewed in issue 8/1985

Review of Taneyev Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Taneyev Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Polyansky provides a splendidly passionate and invigorating introduction to music that we really should know better in the West. The...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2002

Review of Beamish Bridging the Day

Beamish Bridging the Day

There is no shortage of fine cellists making records at the moment‚ but few if any of them have a...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Review of Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

A testament is often a very personal matter and this addition to the enterprising Testament catalogue has a strongly personal...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

Review of Allegri String Quartet plays Haydn, Schumann and Shostakovich

Allegri String Quartet plays Haydn, Schumann and Shostakovich

The beauty of these readings is that, in musical terms, they mean what they say. There is no hint of...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Review of Mozart: Fortepiano Concertos

Mozart: Fortepiano Concertos

This newest disc in Malcolm Bilson's Mozart concerto series—the penultimate one—includes along with two of the less remarkable works, the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1989

Review of Arnold Orchestral Works

Arnold Orchestral Works

This inviting collection of music by arguably our greatest living composer opens with a fittingly witty and exuberant account of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1999

Review of G. Böhm Keyboard Works

G. Böhm Keyboard Works

The late-baroque composer, Georg Bohm, was one of the leading German organists of his day. Like Buxtehude and Pachelbel he...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1993

Review of Mozart Piano Duets, Vol.2

Mozart Piano Duets, Vol.2

When I reviewed the companion disc to this one (9/92), I thought the playing of these two experienced pianists offered...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1993

Review of J. Harvey Miscellaneous Works

J. Harvey Miscellaneous Works

Why compose by computer? Isn't the result certain to be arid and mechanical? Not if you are Jonathan Harvey. His...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1992


 

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