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Rota Symphony No.1 & 2

As with Miklós Rózsa, Nino Rota is so well known as a film composer (of over 100 scores) that his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2009

Lyon Orchestral Works

Though several leading exponents of old remain unrepresented in Marco Polo’s British Light Music series (Charles Ancliffe, Percy Fletcher and...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1999

Ravel: Orchestral Works

This pair of LPs emanates from Ozawa's complete survey of Ravel's orchestral music (without the concertos) originally released in the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985

Vivaldi Concertos

It's an awe-inspiring thought that there are currently nearly 200 Vivaldi concertos in the record catalogue. Perhaps it's a pity...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1984

Berlioz: Songs

The accompanying notes call Berlioz ''a blustering Romantic'', and wonder that he ever turned to song: hardly an auspicious start....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1991

Encore!

An attractive collection of encores celebrating the acoustics of Detroit's Orchestra Hall, made famous by the Mercury engineers during Paray's...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1994

Albéniz Orchestral Works

Except for the revered Nestor of Spanish music, Felip Pedrell who in 1888 hailed the then unprecedented writing by a...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1992

Bax Sinfonietta

First released on Marco Polo, this enterprising Naxos reissue of two otherwise unavailable Bax offerings remains a useful stop-gap, but...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2003

Mozart Piano Concertos

The catalogue reminds me that Zoltan Kocsis's Mozart playing is currently only represented by the Hungaroton disc with the same...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Haydn Concertos

The Naxos disc offers an attractive Haydn medley. Both the Harpsichord Concerto and the Double Concerto, both from the 1750s,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/2008

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