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Mahler Symphony No 10 (ed R Mazzetti, Jnr)

The wrenching power of the Ninth is such that distinguished Mahlerians of an older generation tended to ignore the shadowy...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Bach Cantatas, Vol 4

As distinct from the completist ambitions of recent times, selecting a single cantata for each Sunday and Feast Day of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2007

Coates For Your Delight

Nobody matched Eric Coates for the composition of light music, and nobody matched Coates for conducting his own music. He...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/2007

Liszt Complete Songs Vol 1

In the context of Liszt’s total output (86 pages in The New Grove), the songs (seven pages) may seem almost...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2011

Tavener Works for soprano and string quartet

The centrepiece of this new Hyperion disc devoted to works by John Tavener is Diodia, the third and latest of...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/2001

Vivaldi Sacred Works for Alto & Orchestra

The French countertenor Gerard Lesne follows his earlier disc of sacred music for solo voice by Vivaldi (Harmonic, 3/91) with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1993

McKevitt Translucence

A song-cycle based around Derek Jarman’s poems might seem an unlikely prospect, but not when you consider that the scenic...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Cascioli plays Beethoven & Schoenberg

If you came across these CDs in the racks and turned them over you might find the diversity of repertory...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1997

Shostakovich Symphony No 6; Golden Age - Suite

There are no surprises here. Maxim is as ever a serious, dedicated but perhaps rather plain interpreter of music in...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/1999

Bruckner Symphony No 4

If you’re expecting something controversial – something to fulminate against – you’ll probably be disappointed. Harnoncourt’s Bruckner Fourth is nothing...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1999

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