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Elgar/Parry Music for Strings

This CD transfer makes an hour of pleasant listening to five English works for strings, all in light or whimsical...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Hovhaness Symphony of Metal Instruments etc

I was mightily impressed by the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra’s previous Hovhaness compilation for Koch (7/94) and I’m happy to extend...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1996

Cries and Ballads of London

The booklet to this recording of English ballad settings quotes Gertrude Stein's view of sixteenth-century literature as ''no longer just...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/1993

Famous Handel Arias-Bryn Terfel

“I feel”, sings Terfel with assurance in his voice matching the solemnly, expectantly, ceremonious opening bars; and then, the second...

Reviewed in issue 13/1997

Beethoven/Schumann Symphonies No 4. Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

A Bohm Schumann performance was always a rare event. When John Hunt published his Bohm discography in 1992 (in Mid-Century...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/2000

Martinu Orchestral and Choral Works

I doubt whether the luscious, intricately-scored pages of Martinu's big-hearted Fourth Symphony (surely the most sheerly lovable of all his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1993

(Les) Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal sing Janequin

This CD’s attraction rests partly on the novelty of hearing this repertoire sung by a choir with boy trebles. From...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2005

Haydn Symphonies Nos 54,56 and 57

As on the previous offering from this conductor and orchestra in Naxos’s ongoing Haydn cycle (1/98), these are competent, rather...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1998

Shostakovich Symphony No. 11

This is a good but not I think a great performance, taped while the composer was in Paris to record...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Zemlinsky Complete Orchestral Songs

This is billed as Zemlinsky’s ‘complete orchestral songs’, but since 13 of the 17 (the six Maeterlinck songs and the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/2000

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