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F DAVID Lalla Roukh
Lalla Roukh (1862) was the fifth of the seven operas of Félicien David, a French contemporary of Mendelssohn, born in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2014
Sullivan Orchestral Works
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Richard Hickox
I’ve always retained a soft spot for Sullivan’s Irish Symphony and was pleased to see that Sir Charles Groves’ sprightly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2001
Messaien Organ Works
Kevin Bowyer | Marie-Claire Alain
The bonus of two early pieces is not quite such an attractive proposition from Marie-Claire Alain as might at first...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1990
LACHNER Symphony No 3. Festouvertüre (Schmalfuss)
Evergreen Symphony Orchestra | Gernot Schmalfuss
Franz Lachner (1803 90) is probably best remembered for his important position in the musical life of Munich, where he...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4. Overtures (Kristian Bezuidenhout)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Kristian Bezuidenhout | Pablo Heras-Casado
Here we are: instalment three of a series that so far has been one of the finest ornaments of Beethoven’s...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020
URSPRUCH Piano Concerto. Symphony
Georg Fritzsch | Marcus Bosch | North West German Philharmonic Orchestra | Oliver Triendl
By coincidence, on the day this CPO disc arrived for review I was engaged in researching the booklet for a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018
Transcendent Journey
On the surface, this release looks as though Chuquisengo has grabbed a random selection of scores from the top of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2005
Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Amazingly, this memorable recital was recorded in 1990 at the Wigmore Hall two days before Horszowski’s 98th birthday. Those of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2003
Grainger Dished up for Piano, Vol. 4
New listeners begin here. Well, almost. Martin Jones's three earlier Grainger volumes for Nimbus concentrated on original works, transcriptions and...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1991
Brahms/Schumann Chamber Works
Claus Adam | Glenn Gould | Montreal Qt | Raphael Hillyer | Robert Mann | Yehudi Menuhin
It was in 1992, the tenth anniversary of Glenn Gould's death and the year of his sixtieth birthday that Sony...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
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