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Bach Chamber Works

Hardly had I penned my regrets (September 1987, page 427) at the disappearance of a recording of Wieland Kuijken and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1988

Massenet Cléopâtre

Massenet's last opera enjoyed scarcely more than a succes d'estime at Monte-Carlo on its premiere in 1914, and subsequently it...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Grieg Lyric Pieces - excs. Mendelssohn Songs without words - excs

Debussy’s sniping view of Grieg’s music as ‘pink fondants stuffed with snow’ is, increasingly, little more than a smart, metropolitan...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1999

Marshall Alcatraz

The American composer-performer Ingram Marshall was born in 1942 and studied in New York with Vladimir Ussachevsky and Morton Subotnik....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1992

Shostakovich Symphony No 8

Rostropovich’s latest account of this most emotionally searing of Shostakovich’s symphonies is a cut above most modern Western versions, including...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2005

Sanz Guitar Works

Gaspar Sanz, by far the best-known composer for the baroque (five-course) guitar, published his tutor Instruccion de musica sobre la...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/2001

Marco Symphonies Nos 4 and 5

Opportunities to hear contemporary Spanish music aren't exactly abundant in this country (or any other country outside Spain for that...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 7/1992

Panufnik Orchestral Works

Until quite recently I'd heard rather little of Sir Andrzej Panufnik's later music; catching up with it in the three...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1994

Chadwick & H. Parker Symphonic music

Chadwick and Parker are sometimes patronizingly consigned to the pre-history of American serious music: sons of Boston who sought enlightenment...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1987

Wagner Historic recordings

A certain largesse, a nobility of spirit, touches this enterprise at every point. First, those responsible for the release of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

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