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Newton-Howard (The) Water Horse - Legend of the Deep

Initial reviews augur well for this children's fantasy tale of a Loch Ness-style creature. The Water Horse has something in...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 4/2008

Franck/Poulenc Orchestral Works

A disciplined and dapper account of the Franck Symphony recorded before a well-behaved audience, with well-behaved brass, faster than average...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1994

Sibelius Kullervo

Sibelius’s early masterpiece is really coming into its own – and rightly so. It is a powerful work and extraordinarily...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 13/1997

Shostakovich Symphony No.4

Had Karajan turned his attentions to Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, the results might have come out rather as they do here....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 3/2007

Gubaidulina De Profundis

This is more than a recital: it’s a demonstration of all the remarkable things that the accordion can do in...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

Beethoven Piano Concertos

Gilels, Gould and Kempff give us a daunting array of insights into the five Beethoven piano concertos. Rubinstein less so....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1993

Mazzocchi Vespers

Virgilio Mazzocchi was the maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia at St Peter’s in Rome from 1629 until his...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 6/2009

Schubert: Complete Symphonies

Sample this set at almost any point and you may be impressed by a warmth, a generosity of spirit and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1990

Koechlin Vocal and Chamber Works

Nearly all of us when young, probably, nursed a passion for some film star or other. (Be honest—admit it!) That...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1992

Rameau & Purcell: Orchestral Works

The greater part of this new disc from Frans Bruggen and his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century consists of instrumental...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991

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