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Bloch; Ben-Haïm Works for Violin & Piano

Hagai Shaham and Arnon Erez have already issued one Bloch CD including the two violin and piano sonatas (Hyperion, 4/05)...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2007

Music From Ceremonial Oxford

The special position accorded to music at Oxford and Cambridge led to the creation of repertories of a particularly local...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Dale Piano Works

English music from the early 1900s to the 1930s seems to be strewn with composers whose early careers intimated great...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 5/1993

Smetana Má Vlast

I am a great admirer of Karel Ancerl—his 1961 New World, for example, still seems to me one of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1994

Janácek: Orchestral Works

The Brno trumpets cleave the air—a robust, brassy sound, the leading group of three spitting out their high staccato Bs...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/1990

Ludus Danielis

It is 15 years since Sequentia’s first production of Hildegard’s Ordo Virtutum (Harmonia Mundi, 1/84 – nla). This new and...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/1998

Myaskovsky Complete Symphonies and Orchestral Works

Myaskovsky enthusiasts inured to famine face a sudden glut. While the present Alto issue continues a slow-build sequence, carrying on...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2008

Reubke; Schumann Organ Works

Reubke's meagre worklist (three pieces for piano, two for organ) is out of all proportion to his significance as a...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/1994

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Wilhelm Kempff II

As in the first of the Kempff offerings in the Philips Great Pianists series (10/98), the items here have been...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Langlais Chamber Works

Modal tunes and harmonies can all too easily coalesce into an undis-tinguished porridge. Happily, this is hardly ever the case...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 12/2003

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