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Ravel & Ibert: Orchestral Works

Grace, elegance and a certain detachment informed much of the work of Ansermet, Cluytens, Munch and Paul Paray. Paray's La...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/1991

Lindberg, M Orchestral Works

Hard on the heels of London’s ‘Related Rocks’ festival comes this similarly packaged collection of four recent orchestral pieces by...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Bottesini: Works for double-bass and piano

In January last year I welcomed Thomas Martin's first Bottesini LP (ALH939), a record very similar to this new one...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2

Kurt Sanderling and the Leningrad Philharmonic recorded this work for DG in the 1950s (11/56—nla); Mikhail Pletnev and his Russian...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 4

Although we admire many artists from Asia, the awkward position of Idil Biret's native country of Turkey, lying as it...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1990

Haydn (The) Creation

Roger Norrington is not alone in proclaiming that we habitually play Haydn’s and Mozart’s slow movements too slowly. Here, though,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2008

Cherubini Requiem; Marche funèbre

Suitably enough, Cherubini's C minor Requiem is here preceded by the too little-known Elegischer Gesang by one of his greatest...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2007

Schubert Symphony No. 9

Who would have expected Jeffrey Tate, elegant in Mozart, to give a reading of the Great C major which relates...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1987

Biber Requiem. Steffani Stabat mater

It is now some three years since Gustav Leonhardt recorded the better-known and probably slightly later Requiem in F minor...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1996

Marais Le Labyrinthe

Recent months have seen the release of a number of imaginatively conceived and executed recordings of French viola da gamba...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 5/2000

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