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Serebrier Symphony No 1

It’s not often that a symphony written by a 16-year-old comes out on CD. José Serebrier was born in Montevideo...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2010

Trumpet Concertos

It is a pleasure to welcome a collection of trumpet concertos quite different from the usual baroquiana. Alexandre Aroutounian is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1989

Schumann Kreisleriana; Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 12

The Dal Segno label is associated in my mind with a series of poorly annotated and highly variable piano roll...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2009

Ravel Enfant et les Sortilèges

My much respected late colleague Philip Hope-Wallace, who knew a thing or two about French opera, described this, when it...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1989

Alain Lefèvre - Hommage à André Mathieu

Put unkindly, André Mathieu’s music could be described as tailor-made for those who find classical music intolerably highbrow. Not so...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2005

Mussorgsky Khovanshchina

''To Russians, Mussorgsky's music is an integral part of their cultural awareness and, like the novels of Dostoevsky, plagues them...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1990

Brahms Violin Sonatas

These are spacious performances. Nobu Wakabayashi reminds us at once in the G major Sonata of the latter part of...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1993

Wagner Parsifal

Lehnhoff’s Parsifal, first seen in London (ENO) in 1999, has since been staged in Chicago and San Francisco. This, its...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2005

Byzantine Chant

Any visitor to Paris may have noticed a small church tucked away in the shadow of Notre Dame: Saint Julien-le-Pauvre....

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1990

The London Symphonies

Among Sir Roger Norrington’s contributions to the Haydn anniversary year were these recordings of the 12 “London” Symphonies, made with...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 3/2010

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