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Delius Complete partsongs

Delius had a special relationship with the collective human voice, and the songs here are also presented chronologically, which allows...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1998

Beethoven Eroica Symphony

No one could accuse Neville Marriner of excessive haste in recording a Beethoven symphony series with the ASMF. His stylish...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1983

Knüpfer Sacred Music

Sebastian Knupfer? If you know of him, it is far more likely to be through reading about him than hearing...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/2000

M. Haydn: Orchestral Works

With large areas of Joseph Haydn's magnificent oeuvre still neglected, what chance has his lesser-known younger brother got? You might...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1990

Wagner Rienzi

This performance calls itself a “version in two parts by Philipp Stölzl (the stage director here) and Christian Baier”. It...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 3/2011

(The) Lost Chord - 19th Century Ballads Recalled

They’re all here: The Arab’s Farewell to his Steed (‘Fret not with that impatient hoof’), The Volunteer Organist (‘and strongest...

Reviewed in issue 6/1999

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2

Mendelssohn's Lobgesang, or ''Song of Praise'', is an odd conception making its bid to pick up the gauntlet thrown down...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990

Adam Giselle

Continuing to go where other budget labels fear to tread, Naxos offer this newly recorded complete version of Adam's classic...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1995

American piano music

Bennett Lerner has found himself a niche in the regions of lesser-known America piano music. To judge from the greater...

Reviewed in issue 1/1987

Nielsen Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Last summer Osmo Vänskä and the BBC Scottish took their performance of The Inextinguishable to the Proms, where they rose...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2003

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