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Dvorák Slavonic Dances

Previn, with his rhythmic flair, brings out the playfulness of the Slavonic Dances as few others do. Some performances, like...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1994

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 3

Volumes 3 and 4 in Naxos’s fast-progressing Liszt cycle consist of the Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, the six Consolations and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1997

The Best of Waldteufel, Vol. 1

The enterprising Marco Polo label, having already embarked on a complete survey of the dance music of Johann Strauss II,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1994

Brahms Violin Sonatas

Stern has always shown a particular sympathy for the music of Brahms, and these are his third recordings of the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Late Medieval English and Scottish Sacred Choral Works

Scots readers will perhaps correct me, but I cannot establish that a note of Carver's has ever appeared previously on...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/1989

English Sacred Choral Music

If, as is sometimes said, English composers channelled their operatic instincts into church music, then the present collection, instead of...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Gwen Catley Favourite Arias & Songs

Gwen Catley is salutary to hear as well as delightful. One wishes that the great mesdames of the past, and...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

This is a generous new compendium and I enjoyed it. The Teldec engineers have found a way to avoid the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1993

Brian Symphonies Nos 20 & 25

The Fantastic Variations (the ‘Old Rhyme’ on which they are based is Three Blind Mice) are early Brian, exuberant music...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1996

Concerti da caccia

Mozart's father was particularly fond of the French horn, and here that love affair is splendidly celebrated in two works,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987

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