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Cello Fiesta!

Kremerata Baltica celebrated their 10th birthday last year. The present disc is based on a concert marking the event given...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2008

Liszt Piano Works

If this CD had been given a sub-title I feel that the most appropriate one would have been 'Liszt the...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1990

Stokowski Symphonic Transcriptions

Stokowski’s orchestrations, as flamboyant and full of flair as his interpretations as a conductor, have increasingly been accepted and welcomed...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2005

Heinrich Schlusnus (1888-1952) - II

Schlusnus, like Nissen (see above), spent most of his professional life in Germany, but was better known abroad through his...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Salve Antverpia

The Flemish rhapsodies here are based on folk material, with the exception of the piece by Brusselmans, who uses...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1994

Grainger Songs and Dancing Ballads

“Wogglings” and “grumble-shouts” abound, songs and shanties rudely collide, the jovial, the dark, the angry, the a cappella, the elaborately...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1996

Bruckner Symphony No 9, etc

The degree to which the first movement of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony is dramatic or contemplative is always a moot point....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1997

Michael Rabin

Rabin’s short but stellar career only just overlapped with the stereo era; these recordings, among the last he made, give...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2008

Matthews, D Concertos

Though written nearly 20 years apart, David Matthews’s two violin concertos are very much the result of the same creative...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/2011

Willaert Missa Mente tota

The interest in “lesser” composers of the mid-16th century is now well established; and yet Adrian Willaert hardly belongs in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2010

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