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Boyce Symphonies

The St Martin's Academy recording of the Boyce eight Eight Symphonys shows their familiar virtues of sweet tone, shapely phrasing...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1987

Elgar In the South; Symphony No 1

An excellent Planets (Hyperion, 8/01) is all we’ve heard of the burgeoning Hallé/Elder partnership on disc. These first two releases...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2003

Beriot Solo Violin Works Vol. 1

Charles de Bériot (1802-70), like every instrumental soloist of his time, wrote prolifically for his instrument, and his concertos and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2009

Bach Stokowski Transcriptions Vol. 2

José Serebrier’s first disc of Stokowski’s romantic Bach arrangements (11/06), mainly of organ music, was outstanding in every way, not...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2009

Preisner Requiem

As the success of his film scores shows, Zbigniew Preisner knows exactly how to compose effective and immediately impressive music...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Sibelius: Choral Works

There was a strong male choir tradition in Finland in the last century, albeit much indebted to continental models which...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1988

Schubert Piano Trios

For their first Schubert disc, America's Castle Trio couple the innocent little Sonatensatz (written when the composer was still a...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1993

Toscanini Unpublished HMV Recordings, 1935/38

For decades Toscanini's pre-war live BBC recordings had been hidden away in archives, only surfacing on 'unofficial' discs of dubious...

Reviewed in issue 4/1993

M-A.Charpentier Sacred Choral Works

It was the Te Deum (H146) which inaugurated Charpentier's rehabilitation nearly 40 years ago when it was recorded for Erato...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1991

Liszt Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

With this richly comprehensive two-CD album Pascal Amoyel finds his truest métier, playing with an extraordinary richness and intensity of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2008

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