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Szymanowski Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

Antoni Wit conducts his Warsaw forces in exceptionally warm and idiomatic performances of these two exotic symphonies, vividly recorded. They...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2008

The Robin's Return

The titles themselves—assorted birds, flowers, echoes and warblings—will readily conjour up an impression of the sort of pieces on this...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/1983

Arnold; Horovitz; Martinu Clarinet Sonatinas

Belgian clarinettist Ronald van Spaendonck has here collected a most attractive group of sonatinas for clarinet and piano, a genre...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2010

Bach Cantatas

This is the second disc of Bach cantatas from Jeffrey Thomas and the American Bach Soloists; the earlier one, containing...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1993

Boughton The Queen of Cornwall

We are apt to forget that after 216 consecutive performances of The Immortal Hour in 1922 and 1923, Rutland Boughton...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 9/2011

Delibes Sylvia/Saint-Saëns Henry VIII

Of Delibes’s two full-length ballets, Coppelia is the more obviously popular, the one with the bigger tunes and the greater...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 6/1996

Benny Goodman Collector's Edition

Two complementary issues, each an anthology of Benny Goodman's classical playing, but exploring it from different angles. In the one...

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

Bach Complete Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord

In his review of Masahiro Arita's set on Denon NA gave a clear account of the various shades of doubt...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991

Andreas Haefliger - Perspectives 4

As with the previous three “Perspectives” volumes, Andreas Haefliger juxtaposes Beethoven sonatas with complementary, often unexpected fare by other composers....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2010

Mozart Piano Concertos 18 & 20

The B flat Concerto, K456; makes an unusual but pointful partner for the great D minor, when that lesser-known work...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1986

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