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(The) Organs of Edinburgh

Perhaps more than any other instrument, the organ has evolved through momentous changes and continues to develop during our lifetime....

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 4/2001

Nørgård Orchestral Works

There are three main differences between this new recording of Norgard’s kaleidoscopic Third Symphony (1972-5) and that issued by Da...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 & 8

Sir Charles Mackerras’s recording makes a first-rate budget-price recommendation for this sensible though by no means usual coupling of Beethoven...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1998

Mozart Symphonies 38 & 39

Nothing is known of the circumstances or conditions in which Mozart's E flat Symphony was first performed (or even whether...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1988

Mozart: Chamber Works

The temptation for the recording engineer to highlight the playing of the most illustrious player in a chamber group must...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1986

Vivaldi Farnace

Lucchini’s libretto Farnace was first set to music for Rome in 1724 by Vinci but over the next 14 years...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2011

Lullabies

Perhaps it is significant that Zoltan Kodaly abandoned the quartet medium after just two worthy efforts. Having witnessed the astonishing...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Handel Italian Duets

Handel's duets—he wrote some 20 of them, of which nearly half are recorded here—always seem to me some of his...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1991

Szymanowski Orchestral Works

Excellent value. There's a touch of edge, a hint of congestion to the orchestral sound occasionally, but the playing throughout...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1994

Lehár Schön ist die Welt

Through-composed operetta? An apparent contradiction in terms, but that was exactly what Lehár succeeded in doing with Act 2 of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 7/2006

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