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Borodin Chamber Works, Vol. 3

All the works on this admirably played anthology date from the period 1850-60 and in later years Borodin referred to...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1998

Delius Orchestral Works

Caprice and Elegy was written for Beatrice Harrison, and was one of the works dictated by Delius to Eric Fenby,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Telemann Orchestral Suites

The three orchestral suites on this new Archiv discs afford splendid examples of Telemann's seemingly inexhaustible invention in this sphere....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1993

Tovey Chamber Works, Vol 1

Having already given us useful modern recordings of Donald Francis Tovey’s Symphony in D (8/06) and vast Cello Concerto (4/07),...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2009

Alfred Deller - HMV Recordings, 1949-54

Admirers of this most celebrated of all counter-tenors will be delighted by EMI’s reissue of records which Deller made between...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1996

Elgar/R. Strauss Orchestral Works

No allowances need be made for youth in this grand and glowing Domestica; the above comparisons suggest just how seriously...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Smetana Má Vlast

The first of Rafael Kubelik’s five Ma vlasts was something of a demonstration item in its day and although Mercury’s...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Mahler Symphony No 4

Where Bernard Haitink’s recent re‑engagement with the Beethoven symphonies prompted a shift towards lighter textures and swifter speeds, his latest...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2007

Grieg Orchestral Works

This is a convenient collection, gathering together Grieg's three main orchestral suites, yet omitting the Holberg (which, being for strings,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1991

Priest on the Run

‘Red Priest is rapidly becoming established as the UK’s most dynamic, theatrical and outrageously different baroque ensemble’ states the booklet-note...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/1999

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