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Britten/Poulenc Oboe Works

The oboist here, French and very young (he was born in 1971), possesses an excellent technique and is a deeply...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1996

Berg/Stravinsky Violin Concertos, etc

We can only speculate as to how Franz Clement might have approached Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Equally, whilst recordings of Joseph...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 3/1992

Lecuona On a Night like This - Love Songs

It is curious to think that Paul Hindemith and Ernesto Lecuona were almost exact contemporaries, born a couple of months...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2004

Glazunov Complete Concertos

Stravinsky’s wicked quip that Glazunov was just “a Carl Philipp Emmanuel Rimsky-Korsakov” may be grossly unfair to a distinctive composer....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2011

Music at the Salzburg Court 1587-1612 Vol 2

The raison d'etre for this record is the evident interest taken in church music by Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Prince-Archbishop...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 9/1991

Strauss, R (Ein) Heldenleben; (Der) Rosenkavalier suite

When the 20-year-old Herbert von Karajan conducted Strauss’s Don Juan at his first professional concert in Salzburg in January 1929,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2010

Vivaldi La Pastorella

The influx of recordings of Vivaldi's wind-dominated chamber works prompted me to enumerate them in my last relevant review (Chamber...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1990

Ravel: Orchestral Works

This Argerich/Abbado performance of Ravel's G major Concerto isn't all that new, dating as it does from February 1984. But...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1989

Vasks Violin Concerto

Vasks’s approachable, urgently communicative concerto for violin and strings Distant Light (1996-97) has already enjoyed notable advocacy on disc from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2004

A Lammas Ladymass - 13th-14th Century English Chant & Polyphony

Listeners may be puzzled by the title of Anonymous 4’s latest recording. Don’t expect anything to do with August 1st,...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1998

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