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Works for Clarinet and Orchestra
Andrew Litton | English Chamber Orchestra | Howard Blake | Thea King | Thomas Trotter
Critics ought to sympathize with conservative composers: they share a similar struggle to keep cliche at bay. Really fresh compositions...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1987
Ignaz Friedman - Complete Recordings Vol 1
Volume 1 of Naxos’ projected complete recordings by Ignaz Friedman starts with his American and English Columbia discs dating from...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2002
Producers' Showcase Festival of Music, Vol 1
These two DVDs derive from the vintage years of American TV when major companies such as Ford were prepared to...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2004
Dame Myra Hess Vol.1
Emanuel Feuermann | Hamilton Harty | Myra Hess
It is really very lucky that there is virtually no duplication of repertoire between the four Myra Hess recordings that...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1991
Beecham conducts Handel
Leeds Festival Chorus | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Beecham
One of Sir Thomas Beecham's most enduring (and endearing) interpretative attributes was an ability to turn a seemingly innocuous miniature...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
Verhulst Mass
We read that Johannes Verhulst (1816-91) was a pupil of Mendelssohn, but that much is self-evident from this extended setting...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2003
Furtwängler conducts Brahms
The fortieth anniversary of Furtwangler's death on November 30th, 1954 has brought forth a rich crop of reissues and remasterings,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1995
(The) Complete Leopold Godowsky, Vol 1
Leopold Godowsky | Leopold Jnr Godowsky
All 26 titles Leopold Godowsky recorded for Columbia Graphophone between 1913-16 fit neatly on to the first disc in this...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2005
Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov
Very fortunately, Rachmaninov's consummate genius as a pianist was captured on a number of records. They stand as one of...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1990
Sacred Evergreens
Barry Rose | English Chamber Orchestra | Kiri Te Kanawa | St Paul's Cathedral Choir
Writing in February, my colleague JBS expressed mixed reactions to the LP and I too find the singing a little...
Reviewed in issue 2/1985
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