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Stravinsky The Rake's Progress

There has never been a downright bad recording of The Rake’s Progress (though Esa-Pekka Salonen’s NVC video of it, 2/99,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1999

Friedemann Herz - White Music

Taking its title from a work by Alexander Vustin, this disc presents organ music by composers from the Commonwealth of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2000

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5; Symphony No 4.

A strangely mannered reading of the brief first movement cadenza notwithstanding, Michelangeli plays the Emperor with sovereign skill in this...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1993

Grieg Lyric Pieces

It is hardly surprising that Haakon Austbø’s choice of favourite Lyric Pieces should so closely shadow that of Emil Gilels...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Isaac: Sacred choral works

This is the first appearance on a European label of the ensemble Chanticleer from San Francisco. The group of ten...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1985

Sibelius Orchestral Works

Only last year Chandos issued a fine account of the Fourth Symphony and the first suite from The Tempest by...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1992

Stravinsky (The) Fairy's Kiss; Scènes de Ballet

Recordings of Stravinsky continue to pour out: these two ballets follow on from three others on the earlier Hyperion release...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2010

Glass Symphony No 2; Saxophone Concerto etc

Philip Glass is not a symphonist in the conventional sense, but then nor was Messiaen. Glass himself has indicated that...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 12/1998

Liszt Via crucis

Liszt's setting of the Via crucis, the Lenten penitential rite that follows the 14 Stations of the Cross on the...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1986

Bliss A Colour Symphony; Checkmate - suite

A Colour Symphony was Bliss's first essay in writing a big work for full orchestra, yet it has a remarkably...

Reviewed in issue 4/1987

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