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Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

Vaughan Williams's Fifth will perhaps live longer than any other of his symphonies (even the Fourth); the quintessential orchestral writing...

Reviewed in issue 8/1987

Schubert: Symphonies

This is the first 'authentic' Schubert symphony cycle past the finishing post—Norrington's series for EMI will, it seems, take a...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1991

Butterworth (6) Songs from A Shropshire Lad

The selection may not be as generous as Mark Stone’s recent complete survey (warmly welcomed by John Steane, 6/10), but...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2010

Hallgrímsson Mini Stories

Daniil Kharms (b1905 as Daniil Iuvachev, d1942 in a Stalinist prison) was best known as a writer of offbeat children’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2010

Tveitt From a Travel Diary

Hitherto, recordings of Geirr Tveitt’s music have focused on his orchestral suites (12/94, 8/99, 6/01, 7/01, 4/02, 9/04) and piano...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2012

Franck: Orchestral Works

Franck's devoted disciple d'Indy, to whom Psyche was dedicated, affirmed that the work ''has nothing of the pagan spirit about...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1986

Milhaud Symphonies Nos. 10-12

Continuing his useful series of the Milhaud symphonies, Alun Francis has now come to the final three (except for the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1996

Homage to Gerald Moore

For some 40 years from the mid-1920s Gerald Moore transformed the accompanist from merely being soloists’ accessory into being their...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2003

Beethoven Violin Sonatas

This disc could well find itself as the first on my private list of nominations for next year's ''Critics' choice''....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 1/1995

Reich Electric Counterpoint

When I spoke to Steve Reich for Gramophone’s March 2011 issue, two things became crystal clear. Firstly, that orchestration is...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 8/2011

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