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Trumpet and Organ Spectacular
Håkan Hardenberger | Simon Preston
Cards on the table straight away. The more I hear of trumpet and organ the more unsatisfactory and uninspiring I...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1992
Bizet Carmen
Both these performances are greatly preferable to Karajan's DG recording, and choice between them is hard. If, a little to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1985
Raff Orchestral Works
Francesco d' Avalos | Philharmonia Orchestra
A collectors's item today, Joachim Raff's Third Symphony Im Walde (1869) was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and with the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/1992
Franck Les Béatitudes
A favourite ploy used to denigrate a composer is to criticize him for not doing something which in fact had...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1991
Martucci Complete Orchestral Music, Vol. 1
Francesco d' Avalos | Philharmonia Orchestra
The case for investigating Martucci gets more and more urgent with each work of his that comes to light. The...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1989
Mahler Symphony No 2, 'Resurrection'
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony was the work which changed the course of Otto Klemperer’s musical career. In Berlin in 1905 he...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2010
Gade Choral Works
Gade’s representation in the catalogue has increased enormously over the last few years and the present issue brings us a...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1997
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
John O'Conor's Beethoven is intriguing. Its lean textures, absence of fuss, disinclination for extremes of tempo, dynamic or temperamental display,...
Reviewed in issue 5/1988
Méhul Stratonice
Those who revere Donald Francis Tovey’s writings as almost the musical equivalent of Holy Writ will remember that the sage...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1996
Piatti Quartet: Albion Refracted
I believe this is the Piatti Quartet’s first full ‘unaccompanied’ release. They collaborated with Gottlieb Wallisch on a disc of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018
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