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Woolrich (The) Ghost in the Machine; Concerto for Viola and Orchestra

Welcoming NMC’s first Woolrich disc‚ of relatively small­scale vocal and chamber music (10/96)‚ I expressed the hope ‘that recordings of...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Bach Orchestral Suites, etc

This new release of Bach's four orchestral suites, BWV1066/9, together with a fifth, completes a project with Musica Antiqua began...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1986

Twentieth-Century Flute Concertos

Strictly speaking two of the four works on this disc are not flute concertos at all: the Honegger, like the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1991

Ravel: Music for Two Pianos

I gave a warm welcome to the debut recording by Stephen Coombs and Christopher Scott (LDR/Gamut (CD) LDRCD1009, 1/90), an...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991

Mahler Symphony No 8

Antoni Wit completes his Mahler cycle for Naxos with the Eighth Symphony in an aptly celebratory interpretation – one that...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 9/2006

Bach Keyboard Works

That Pogorelich loves the music of Bach is not to be doubted, in fact he can't get too much of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1986

Brahms Chamber Works (orchestrated)

This is the sixth recording of Schoenberg's Brahms orchestration to be issued since Simon Rattle's (EMI, 6/86). If only Schoenberg's...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1993

Bruckner SYmphony No 4

For many years, Bruckner's so-called Romantic Symphony was the most frequently performed and recorded of all his symphonic works. Happily,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1991

Handel Violin Sonatas

Compose violin sonatas, and you can guarantee that someone somewhere will want to lavish affections on them—even if, as here,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Mendelssohn Symphonies

With busy, resonant sound and a predilection for slower-than-usual tempos, Reinhard Seifried’s Mendelssohn harks back to Schubertian and Beethovenian models...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

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