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Hickox conducts Vaughan Williams

Sir Simon Rattle’s outstandingly perceptive and delectably stylish Britten compendium is a straightforward reissue at lower mid-price of a hugely...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2000

Takemitsu Arc & Green

The dissemination of music from his last two decades has tended to draw attention away from the works Toru Takemitsu...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2007

Prokofiev Favourites

Disc 1 is devoted to the Suites Nos 1 and 2 from Romeo and Juliet, both of which remain resolutely...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2000

Bach CPE/ Couperin/ Rameau - The Baroque Harpsichord

The star of this recording is not so much the composer – or even the performers – as the instrument,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2000

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 6, 15 and 27

There are not many composers for whom one could programme three concertos in the same key. Nevertheless, Mozart allegedly associated...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2005

Bridge String Quartets Nos 1 & 4

I expressed some minor reservations about this same group’s previous pairing of Bridge’s Second and Third Quartets (Meridian, 8/97). As...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

Kirsten Flagstad sings Wagner

Precious, historic days, those in the spring of 1948 and June the following year when Flagstad, with her faithful partner...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1987

Walton String Quartets

It is just a year (October) since the Gabrieli Quartet performed for the first time in almost 70 years what...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1991

Bax Tone Poems

As with Sibelius, although his symphonies are the backbone of Bax's output, his symphonic poems, up till The Tale the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1983

Goldmark Chamber Works

Karoly Goldmark (1830-1915) is one of those composers with only a few works (the Rustic Wedding and the Violin Concerto)...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2000

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