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Arne 4 New Overtures or Symphonies

Arne's four symphonies were published in London in 1767, 11 years before his death, and are all in the three-movement...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 12/1985

Steiner (The) Adventures of Mark Twain

Steiner’s flair for weaving traditional melodies and snatches of period songs onto the larger canvas of his own music, as...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 13/2004

Beethoven Piano Sonatas 1/3/32

I remember being astonished to read in Joachim Kaiser’s Great Pianists of Our Time (George Allen & Unwin: 1971) that...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2000

Pärt Litany

Hermann Conen has written that Arvo Part’s mature work “makes a quiet, wordless protest against the compulsion to be modern,...

Reviewed in issue 9/1996

José Cura - Aurora

Since José Cura, who is very much Master of Ceremonies here, gives such prominence to Aurora, we may as well...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003

Bruckner Symphony in F minor

Bruckner wrote his F minor Study Symphony in 1863 for his teacher, the cellist and part-time conductor of Linz's Municipal...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1992

Alain Organ Works, Volume 2

Bach Collegium Japan’s hitherto excellent series of Bach’s sacred cantatas continues with performances of Ich hatte viel Bekummernis, and Der...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1998

Bruckner Symphony No 4

This is the draft of the putative “Fourth Symphony” Bruckner offered a predictably sceptical Vienna Philharmonic in 1874. It is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2009

Works for Guitar and Orchestra

''Nicola plays Nicolo''—the tag has been virtuously resisted, but Nicola Hall brings virtuosity to her transcription of the Second Violin...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994

Chopin Prelude

For his second Chopin recital, dedicated to the memory of Vlado Perlemuter, Alexandre Tharaud once again couples one of his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2008

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