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Elgar Complete Choral Songs

Here are riches. 'Elgar's Choral Songs' is a wide term, embracing part-songs, unison songs and those for male voices. The...

Reviewed in issue 4/1988

Stravinsky Choral and Orchestral Works

Invited to give four concerts in Geneva last summer, Neeme Jarvi turned the occasion into a mini-Stravinsky festival in honour...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Robert & Clara Schumann Portraits

Famed above all as a delectable Mozart singer, Miah Persson has also made her mark as a thoughtful recitalist. As...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2011

Beethoven & Wagner: Orchestral Works

Svetlanov exercises plenty of old-fashioned conductorial authority over this 1981 recording of the Eroica. Trenchantly and expressively played it is...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1990

Bock Fiddler on the Roof

It’s good we have a souvenir of Henry Goodman’s passionate, big-hearted Tevye. Lindsay Posner’s winning Sheffield Crucible production of Stein,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/2008

Watercolours - Swedish Songs

As a general rule the titles dreamed up by record companies to adorn their recital discs bear little relation to...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 3/2004

Milhaud Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

Darius Milhaud embarked on his delightful First Symphony in the autumn of 1939 following a commission from the Chicago Symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1999

Massenet Amadis

Connoisseurs of operatic curiosities will here find another strange piece to add to a list that includes Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada (where...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1989

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No 28 & 29

Part of a complete cycle of the Beethoven sonatas, this issue confirms Anton Kuerti’s deeply personal and musicianly qualities. His...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2005

Satie Ballet and Orchestral Music

Nietzsche said that ''revolutions come on the feet of doves''. We learn this from the useful booklet here, which has...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

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