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Richard Rodney Bennett Diversions, etc

It is shocking that not one of Richard Rodney Bennett’s three symphonies is currently listed on the Gramophone...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1997

Evgeny Kissin plays Chopin

One wonders why this disc has only just been released. Perhaps because it features somewhat perverse playing and RCA wanted...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2007

American Orchestral Works

If there has to be an Adagio for strings, I prefer Lekeu's. But CD has persuaded me that I can...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia

In a letter written in March 1882, Verdi singled out a passage in Il barbiere di Siviglia that was in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1992

Takemitsu Complete Piano Works

It's good to see Roger Woodward back in the recording studio after so long an absence. A tireless champion of...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 6/1991

Abelard 12th-Century Chant

A beautiful and fascinating collection. Peter Abelard (1079-1142) is famous as lover, heretic and poet. His treatise on ethics, his...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1995

Organ Fireworks, Vol. 2

The choice of the Royal Albert Hall with its inescapable associations with the Last Night of the Proms has inspired...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1989

Handel Water & Fireworks Music

Virgin’s new Water Music recording breaks down the now customary division into three ‘suites’, in F, D and G, that...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Dvorák Symphony No 8; The Wood Dove

Neeme Jarvi and the SNO complete their highly enjoyable Dvorak cycle with an account of the Eighth Symphony which underlines...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1989

Brahms; Schumann Piano Quintet and Quartet

In 1907, Rebecca Clarke became the first woman to be admitted into Stanford’s composition class at London’s Royal College of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2001

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