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Haydn Symphonies

It is good when record companies couple a Haydn symphony with a nick-name, i.e. a well-known one, with one that...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Lassus Prophetiæ Sibyllarum

One might be forgiven for getting these two recordings mixed up: both of them are from Italian mixed a cappella...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/2007

Copland Orchestral Works

With exceptionally vivid sound, bright and immediate, giving a realistic sense of presence, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's collection makes for...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1989

A. Mahler Complete Songs

In her autobiography Alma Mahler-Werfel said that she had written ''hundreds of songs'' and a piano sonata (conceivably other things...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989

Brahms; Stravinsky Concertos for Violin and Orchestra

Many of the most powerful readings of the Brahms‚ that most demanding of violin concertos‚ have been made by women...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Rachmaninov String Quartets and Romances

The string quartets recorded here are not startling new discoveries but incomplete works dating from the very beginning of Rachmaninov's...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1994

Bolivian Baroque

This unusual recording grew out of a project that resulted from a visit by Florilegium to the ‘Chiquitos Missions’ music...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 7/2005

Haydn Symphonies, Vol.15

The prominent horn writing in Haydn's D major Symphony (No. 72) betrays its earlier chronology (between 1763 and 1765). The...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

The Essential Philip Glass

If not the 'essential' Philip Glass (admirers and detractors alike could make a meal of the concept of 'inessential' Glass)...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1994

Holst (The) Wandering Scholar; Suite de ballet; Song of the Night

Reference to ‘the new recording of The Wandering Scholar’ reminds us that there is an old one, and not so...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

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