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Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

Finland is rapidly becoming the conservatoire of Europe; the sort of position that Bohemia held in the late eighteenth century....

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Ravel Concertos for Piano; Alborada del Gracioso

The slow movement of the G major Concerto looks on the surface as though it might carry the sort of...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Grieg Songs, Vol. 2

The tidy-minded may have preferred a chronological arrangement, and (with Graham Johnson's Schubert Edition in mind) others would value the...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Ravel Gaspard de la nuit; Miroirs

According to the booklet, Cahill spent three years playing nothing but Ravel. Sadly one wouldn’t have guessed from the performances...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 9/1998

Dvorák String Quartets 10 & 14

It’s always a pleasure to hear top-ranking players take Dvorak’s greatest string quartets for an outing, especially if they’re recorded...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2001

Rubbra Viola and Violin Concertos

In one sense Rubbra is the ideal gramophone composer for his work does not give up its secrets on an...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1994

Ullmann Der Sturz des Antichrist

Even in the desperate conditions of the Nazi’s Theresienstadt concentration camp, Viktor Ullmann followed a more recognizably German compositional path...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Mozart Symphonies Nos 40 & 41

Marc Minkowski’s coupling of the last two Mozart symphonies is truly individual, arrestingly weighty and very much forward-looking. But the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2006

Mozart: Piano Works

The current catalogue's only K284, written when Mozart was 19, is part of a Hungaroton boxed set from Dezso Ranki...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1985

Offenbach Orphée aux enfers

For its fourth Offenbach release ArtHaus Musik offers a 1997 production from the Théâtre de la Monnaie‚ Brussels. Max Loppert...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

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