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Prokofiev/Mosolov/Varese Orchestral Works

The three and a half minutes that it takes to stoke Mosolov's uncompromisingly fierce Iron Foundry conjure up a terrifying...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Nielsen Symphonies

Only last February, I was discussing the new CBS recording of The Four Temperaments from Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1990

Bartok; Saygun Violin Sonatas

An interesting idea to couple two of Bartók’s finest violin works with violin music by Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-91), a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2009

Weber Oberon

Oberon has been out of the catalogue for too long. It can never be a repertory opera (particularly since those...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1991

Schubert Chamber Works

In one basic respect this latest Trout would probably have disappointed Sylvester Paumgartner, the amateur cellist who commissioned the work...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1998

Haydn Symphonies

This reissue of Haydn symphonies by Jane Glover and the London Mozart Players presents a fascinating programme, highlighting both the...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Homage to Johannes Ciconia

In many ways this is a very exciting record. The musicians of Project Ars Nova really perform the music, presenting...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1993

Gade Songs, Volume 1

A slightly flat acoustic is the only negative aspect of this first instalment of Niels Gade’s complete songs. Thodberg Bertelsen...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Bach Cello Suites (arr. Lute)

The Cello Suites have been borrowed by guitarists for decades, now it is the turn of a lutenist—and why not?...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1994

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

It is quite a development when Sir Neville Marriner tackles late-romantic symphonies, not with a regular symphony orchestra—as he did...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1991

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