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Britten Cello Symphony; Death in Venice Suite

There are welcome signs, of which this recording is one, that Britten's Cello Symphony is being taken up by several...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Bruckner Symphony No 8

Tennstedt’s performance of Bruckner’s mighty Eighth Symphony is high on adrenalin from the very first minute and remains so for...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2008

Aureliano Pertile (1885-1952) - I

Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Aureliano Pertile... ah, these names. No doubt their potency, such as it ever was, in the world at...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Marek Orchestral Works

The music of Polish-born composer, Czeslaw Marek (1891-1986), serves up an intoxicating aural cocktail. Echoes of Wagner, Strauss and (more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1996

Maria Graf A Recital

The harp, one of the oldest and most ubiquitous of all instruments, attained its present form in France, grace a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991

Daugherty Metropolis Symphony; Bizarro

It’s a bird, it’s a plane... holy skyscrapers, it’s a symphony by Michael Daugherty! Daugherty trades in American mythology. Elvis,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1996

Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

How fortunes have changed for this magnificent symphony in the recording studio! Had the present admirable transfer of Bernstein's splendid...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1994

Leighton Piano Works

Kenneth Leighton is at last receiving something like due recognition, and this disc is an ideal introduction to his music....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/2000

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Nelson Freire

In his accompanying essay, John Ardoin puzzles over the failure of Nelson Freire’s cult following to expand into wider recognition....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1999

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition; Scriabin Poem ofEcstasy

The two new recordings of Ravel's brilliant orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition are both enjoyable, but in the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1990

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