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Shostakovich: Symphonies

This is much more of a revised edition than a straightforward reissue of an earlier HMV set (SLS5025, 12/75—nla). It...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1985

LeJeune Masses

The insert-notes describe Claude Le Jeune as a ''giant of French Renaissance music''; but France barely looms large on the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Bach (Das) Wohltemperierte Clavier Vol. 2

The reservations voiced in my review of Richard Egarr’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (12/07) apply to its sequel. If anything,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2010

Music for the Bournonville Ballets

Two hundred years after his birth the choreographer August Bournonville ranks very firmly above the composers of his ballet scores....

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2006

Orchestral Works connected with London

Ireland's London Overture, Elgar's Cockaigne and Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony make an obviously attractive (and attractively obvious) 'London' programme....

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

Debussy Orchestral Works

Never was there a conductor less inclined to treat Debussy’s music like a lily that might lose its petals if...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1998

Elgar Orchestral Works

Do we need yet another recording of Enigma? Looked at realistically, the answer must be no. But when a performance...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Geminiani (The) Inchanted Forrest

Geminiani’s incidental music to The Inchanted Forrest dates from his last period (c1756). Its first performances seem not to have...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2003

Italian and French Opera Arias

This is a bargain-issue and by no means underpriced. The recordings were made live at a concert (or concerts) in...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Mozart Piano Quartets

There have been several excellent recordings recently of these two works, mostly on period instruments. Here’s another, on modern instruments,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2003

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