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Grainger Orchestral Works, Volume 3

Here’s a recipe guaranteed to delight Grainger acolytes and inquisitive newcomers alike: a liberal sprinkling of old friends (the majority...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: /2000

Brahms Violin Concerto; Sarasate Carmen Fantasy

Violinists and students of string playing will relish this opportunity to examine the work of a supremely accomplished artist. If...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Schumann Piano Works

The Concerto was recorded live in a series of concerts in May last year at the Vienna Musikverein, while the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1993

Whitlock Orchestral Light Music

Send the children off to the beach with their buckets and spades, get the deck chairs out, and settle back...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Vähi Supreme Silence

The stylistic diversity of Peeter Vahi’s Buddhist cantata – Tibetan ritual (and instruments, including the dung chen), New Age euphony,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Verdi Ernani

Although (quite rightly) JBS pointed out in his April 1984 ''Quarterly'' that Freni, Domingo, Bruson and Ghiaurov aren't quite the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1985

Eugen d'Albert Piano Concertos

Eugen d'Albert's First Piano Concerto is big, very big—lasting 45 minutes for a single movement structure here! On first hearing...

Reviewed in issue 5/1995

Delden Orchestral Works

Lex van Delden (born Alexander Zwaag) is an unfamiliar name to the majority of professional musicians, let alone the average...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/1994

Gloryland

Anonymous 4 is the team of four women who were acclaimed for “American Angels”, which stayed in the Billboard classical...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2006

Ferneyhough Shadowtime

Anyone familiar with Brian Ferneyhough’s music might be surprised such an ‘ideas’ composer has attempted opera at all. Although not...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2006

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