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Brahms Orchestral Works

Skrowaczewski's somewhat uneven Brahms symphony cycle is completed by this issue. As before, the Halle play very well, and the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1989

LLoyd-Webber Sacred Choral Music

The booklet reproduces a report from the Evening Standard, March 14, 1939, headed 'Organist of 25 Trains his Father in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2000

Mozart Choral Music

Between them, these three versions of the C minor Mass cover quite a range of performance styles. At the one...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1992

Bruckner Symphonies Nos 3-9; Te Deum; Mass No 3

The other day, a friend handed me a review of these recordings which began with the words: ‘This has to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1999

Kapsberger; Piccinini Chamber Works

The freer style of the early decades of the 17th century – where structural and melodic certainty got dumped for...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2003

Brahms & Elgar: Choral Songs

In times gone by the pairing of Brahms and Elgar would have seemed a little strange; and it is a...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Villa-Lobos Piano Music, Volume 2

Both works here come from the mid 1920s, after Villa-Lobos had returned from his first visit to Europe, where he...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1996

Nicolai Gedda - Tenor par excellence

No doubt about the quality of the singing; it’s the curious variability of the transfers that raises questions. The first...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2005

Gershwin Rhapsodie in Blue; Piano Concerto; Porgy & Bess

A newcomer to the two piano-and-orchestra works here would not know or notice or, for that matter, care that the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2010

Schubert & Schumann Lieder

Few, if any Schubert song recitals, have given me as much pleasure over the years as this one by the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1990

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