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Generally a good record. The recording is clear, a little studioish, but vivid enough. All the music springs readily to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1987

Echoes and Shadows-Romantic Choral Music

Over an hour of soft-centred, occasionally sentimental choral music. Yet all three works have their attractions, notably DeBlasio’s sensitive handling...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1998

Beecham conducts Favourite Overtures, Vol. 2

One item, the Rossini, is repeated from Vol. 1 of Beecham's ''Favourite Overtures'', which I reviewed in July last year....

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Mahler Symphony No 6

Do you remember the 1960s? A time before Mahler symphony series were two­a­penny‚ when conductors like Abravanel‚ Bernstein‚ Haitink and...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Wallin Act; Das war schön!; Tides

Rolf Wallin, 50 last year, is a figure at home across a range of genres and who also deploys complex...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 6/2008

Mozart Last Concerto (The)

This slightly arbitrary collection of pieces, gathered together under the title ‘The Last Concerto’, places Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto (his last...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2003

Mahler Symphony No 9

After the shock of David Zinman’s deployment of Clinton Carpenter’s edition of the incomplete Tenth (3/11), we are back on...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2011

Songbook for Isabella

Isabella d’Este was one of the most famous patrons of the arts in the Renaissance, and music seems to have...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2003

Lutoslawski Songs and Orchestral Works

Chantefleurs et Chantefables, Lutoslawski’s penultimate work, was heard as a late and exquisite flowering of lyricism, prompted in part by...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1998

Beethoven Late String Quartets

In an age that has seen the string quartet develop into something of a ‘trendy item’, it is sobering to...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

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