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Debussy & Ravel: Orchestral Works

This is a compilation that should attract lovers of the music of these two French masters. Each of the four...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1990

Mahler Symphony No 4

Given the distance between the “authentic” Fourths peddled by Mahler disciples Willem Mengelberg and Bruno Walter, Norrington’s insistence on the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2006

Handel Faramondo

Faramondo was produced in 1738, given eight performances and laid to rest. It reappeared in 1973 at the Handel Festival...

Reviewed in issue 4/1999

Jomelli Passione

Jommelli's name is foremost associated with opera and, perhaps too, with Tommaso Traetta, a fellow Italian composer who, like Jommelli,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1987

Poulenc: Sacred choral works

Up till now, if we in this country have wanted Poulenc's Stabat mater, we have had to make do with...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1985

Webern Chamber Works

The posthumous publication of compositions from Webern’s student years revealed the dramatic change of direction his music took between 1905...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2003

Handel Saul

Saul, Handel’s first great oratorio, has over the last 15 years or so become one of his most popular on...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2005

Vainberg Solo Cello Works, Vol. 9

Vainberg composed the cycle of 24 Preludes for Rostropovich, but, for reasons which are not disclosed by Per Skans in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1997

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works

The star of Bernstein's CD of Tchaikovsky's 1812 is undoubtedly the cannon. The image is spectacular, yet convincingly placed and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985

Weigl Symphony No 6; Old Vienna

This may not be the best entrée into the understated world of Karl Weigl (1881-1949). For that I would suggest...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2006

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