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Ravel: Orchestral Works

Though a Ravel devotee, I must confess that my first reaction to the appearance of this record was to think,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1986

Mozart; Saint-George String Quartets

Recordings of Classical-period instrumental music from France are rare, but one composer who has fared marginally better than most is...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2004

Beethoven/Debussy/Ravel Piano Works

Michelangeli once devoted a whole DG LP to Beethoven’s E flat major Sonata Op 7‚ not because his reading was...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Chopin: Piano Works

Of course, Vlado Perlemuter, who was giving concerts in the 1920s, represents a very different style of Chopin playing to...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1990

The Carol Album

I think we're on to a winner with this record: for years, now, parish groups, amateur choral societies professional choirs...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1989

Monteverdi Orfeo

It is clear right from the start, with the almost aggressive snarling brass and thudding drums of the opening Toccata,...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 12/1995

Fauré Requiem, etc

From having been the standard version, the reorchestrated scoring of Faure’s Requiem has almost become the exception among performances, at...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Goldmark Orchestral Works

It is good to have Goldmark's Rustic Wedding Symphony in the CD catalogue at last, a work admired by Brahms...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1992

Holst (The) Planets; Matthews, C Pluto

Unusually popular repertoire for Hyperion; but the special interest here is Pluto, commissioned by the Halle’s outgoing director Kent Nagano...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Schoeck Lieder, Vol. 3

Although Sommernacht, the glorious Violin Concerto and operas such as Penthesilea and Massimila Doni are great achievements, it is his...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1994

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