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Henry Smart Organ Works
Ten years ago a record entirely devoted to the music of Henry Smart would have been unthinkable, yet in his...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1992
Bretan Sacred Songs
Donald S. Sutherland | Ferdinand Weiss | Ludovic Konya | Martin Berkofsky | Phyllis Bryn-Julson
The Romanian composer Nicolae Bretan (1887-1968) has become a speciality, almost a monopoly, of Nimbus, which has also made previous...
Reviewed in issue 11/1999
Clementi Piano Sonatas Vol 4
With these two discs Howard Shelley’s cycle of Clementi piano sonatas moves into the 1790s, the decade when Haydn was...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2009
MERCADANTE Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamaccio
Saverio Mercadante was a highly successful composer in his day. He studied at the Naples Conservatory, where he caught the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2012
KARAEV Orchestral Works
These two works by the Azerbaijani composer Faradzh Karaev (b1943) date from 2004 (Violin Concerto) and 2009 (Vingt ans après...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2016
ARUTIUNIAN; SHOSTAKOVICH; WEINBERG Trumpet Concertos
Hans Graf | Jae-Hyuck Cho | Paul Merkelo | Russian National Orchestra
Paul Merkelo’s nicely programmed album is a tribute to the great Ukrainian-born trumpet virtuoso Timofei Dokschitzer (also spelled Dokschizer or...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023
VON REZNICEK Violin Concerto. Till Eulenspiegel
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Marcus Bosch | Sophia Jaffé
The works on this disc – part of a leisurely continuing series from CPO – date from the period between...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016
FARRENC Etudes & Variations for solo piano (Joanne Polk)
Since Joanne Polk has long championed piano music by important pioneering women composers such as Fanny Hensel and Amy Beach,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020
STANFORD String Quintets & Intermezzi
If I might indulge myself for a moment, I remember the first time I encountered Stanford’s First String Quintet –...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021
BERLIOZ Harold in Italy
Andrew Davis | James Ehnes | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Chandos’s new release continues a potential Berlioz cycle from Sir Andrew, following his well-received Overtures disc with the Bergen Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
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