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Stravinsky Rite of Spring & Sym of Wind Insts

There are more than a dozen LP versions of The Rite of Spring in the current Gramophone Classical Catalogue, four...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1985

Parker, C Film Scores

This timely issue in the Chandos Movies series marks the centenary of Clifton Parker (1905-89), a prolific composer represented here...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 6/2005

Grainger Edition, Vol. 8 - Works for Wind Band 2

We have reached Vol. 8 in Chandos’s mammoth Grainger Edition, in which the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1998

Czech Piano Avantgarde 1918 - 1938

Rarely can so earnest a title have yielded such a winning disc. This collection by Steffen Schleiermacher of Czech piano...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2003

Handel Coronation Anthems

I had not heard the LP of this recording of Handel's Coronation Anthems and so was able to approach the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1983

Chopin Piano Works

Stott not only includes the two posthumously published Nocturnes in C sharp minor and C minor after the usual 19,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1994

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique; Overtures

I wonder if Charles Munch would be pleased to see the issue of these live performances? Somehow I doubt it....

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Shostakovich Symphony No 11

For his first all-Russian Shostakovich recording, Vladimir Ashkenazy has chosen one of the more problematic symphonies. The conductor is quoted...

Reviewed in issue 5/1996

Spanish Album

I cannot imagine many piano lovers failing to fall for this delectable and all-too-brief collection of impressions, portraits and postcards....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2006

Hummel Missa Solemnis; Te Deum

Richard Hickox’s splendid, Gramophone Award- winning Chandos issue of two of Hummel’s Masses (12/02) has already alerted us to the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2004

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