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Bax Chamber Music, Volume 2
Alison Nicholls | Ashan Pillai | Kanako Ito | Lorna McGhee | Martin Storey | Philippe Honoré
The good news is that, while we are waiting for the remaining three instalments in David Lloyd-Jones’s Bax symphony cycle,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2000
Rubbra Symphonies 2 & 6
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Richard Hickox
I must say that for me the Second Symphony of 1937 has always been among the most problematic of the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1996
Mystery of Notre Dame
Anyone who has followed the work of the Orlando Consort has been waiting for them to record Notre Dame music...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1998
Ann Murray sings Irish Songs
Irish song has a world of life in it, is not puffed-up, knows that a good laugh is part of...
Reviewed in issue 3/1999
Bach Cantatas, Vol 14
Collectors of the Koopman complete cantata series need to keep their wits about them following the transfer of the project...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2004
Karlowicz Stanislaw & Anna; Eternal Songs; Lithuanian Rhapsody
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier
What a fine composer Mieczys1aw Kar1owicz might have become‚ had he not died at the age of 32 in an...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2002
Schumann Piano Concerto & Piano Quintet
It makes an unusual and apt coupling to have the Schumann Piano Concerto alongside the most powerful of his chamber...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000
Stenhammar Songs
Anne Sofie von Otter | Bengt Forsberg | Håkan Hagegård | Thomas Schuback
With every new addition to the Stenhammar discography, this composer grows in my estimation. Now that the two symphonies, the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1990
Wolf Orchestral Works
Daniel Barenboim | Orchestre de Paris
This first recording of Penthesilea for a very long while (first ever on CD) is all the more welcome for...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990
Brahms/Schubert Piano Works
Both sonatas in this mid-price reissue came from composers still only 20. I particularly enjoyed Lupu’s imaginative vitality in Schubert’s...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1996
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