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Review of Honneger Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4

Honneger Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Charles Dutoit

MusiFrance

With this issue Charles Dutoit completes his welcome survey of the five Honegger symphonies with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1986

Review of Walton: Sacred Choral Music

Walton: Sacred Choral Music

Graham Jackson | Richard Marlow | Trinity College Choir, Cambridge

Classics

In the very month when the Walton discography of major works is completed with the first recording of In Honour...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989

Review of L. Couperin Complete Harpsichord Works

L. Couperin Complete Harpsichord Works

Davitt Moroney

Musique d'abord

Louis Couperin was a pupil of Chambonnieres generally recognized as founder of the great French harpsichord school. After his nephew...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1990

Review of Coates & Grainger Country Gardens

Coates & Grainger Country Gardens

Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Frederick Fennell | London Pops Orchestra

Living Presence

Certainly no complaints about the orchestral playing on this immensely enjoyable Grainger programme. Fennell coaxes some typically beefy, big-hearted sounds...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1993

Review of Muzio The Published Edisons, 1920-25

Muzio The Published Edisons, 1920-25

Anonymous Pianist(s) | (Anonymous) Orchestra | Albert Spalding | Claudia Muzio | Mario Laurenti | Robert Gaylor

Biographies in Music

There can be few events I would rather be carried back to in a time capsule than Muzio's performances as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1990

Review of Codex Las Huelgas

Codex Las Huelgas

Brigitte Lesne | Discantus

Opus 111

It is more than mere trendism to say that medieval musical practices within female communities such as nunneries have been...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Review of Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov

André Previn | Claudio Abbado | Eugene Ormandy | Lazar Berman | Leonard Pennario | Leopold Stokowski | London Symphony Orchestra | Philadelphia Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Sergey Rachmaninov

Maestro

Reviewing Ashkenazy's most recent Rachmaninov Third (with Haitink and the Concertgebouw, Decca 417 239-2DH, 11/86) I made passing mention of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Review of Stokowski's Symphonic Bach

Stokowski's Symphonic Bach

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Matthias Bamert

Chandos

Generations of new music-lovers must have experienced a thrill of discovery near the opening of the Disney film, Fantasia, when...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1994

Review of Schubert Piano Works

Schubert Piano Works

Claudio Arrau

Arrau Edition

No keyboard aficionado would have difficulty in guessing, in a musical quiz, who this pianist is—and chiefly because of Arrau's...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1992

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