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Mayr; Mozart Choral Works

Johann Simon Mayr‚ the Bavarian­born composer who was a leading figure in serious Italian opera in the decades around 1800‚...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 3 & 5

“Youthful juvenilia” was the painfully self-critical Mendelssohn’s put-down of his Reformation Symphony. “Of all my pieces this is the one...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2010

Lutoslawski Symphony 3, etc.

CBS are to be congratulated on not spreading the Turangalila-symphonie over two complete CDs. But the couplings do seem primarily...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1987

Pfitzner Cello Concertos

Hans Pfitzner's later music suggests that he identified closely with the imprisoned soldier in a poem by C. F. Meyer...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1994

Scriabin Symphony No 1 etc

A fair showing from one of Moscow’s new orchestras, but it’s no match for the Russian National Orchestra. In the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1996

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 4

Zukerman and Neikrug have chosen to begin this programme with the A major Sonata that was Mozart's last major work...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993

Martucci Complete Orchestral Music, Vol. 2

The Martucci case gets curiouser and curiouser with every recording of his music that emerges. The Second Symphony, regarded by...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1990

Glazunov Symphonies Nos 1-3 and 9

The three-and-a-bit works collected here are in many ways the weaker brethren in Glazunov’s symphonic oeuvre. His debut as a...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2009

Gibbons Royal Fantasies

Founded eight years ago, Concordia are not the newest viol consort to have made a name for themselves in the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2000

Mahler Symphony No 2

Any Mahlerian resident in the United States in 1935, and willing to travel the length and breadth of the country,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

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