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Spohr Clarinet Concertos Nos 3 & 4

This outstanding disc is the counterpart of Michael Collins’s coupling of Spohr’s first two Clarinet Concertos with the same forces...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2008

Haydn Piano Trio Concertini and Divertimenti

What’s genuine mingles with much that is inauthentic, thought to be authentic or of doubtful provenance. It’s the sort of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2010

Elena Zaremba - Portrait

Zaremba‚ as she showed a few years ago at Covent Garden‚ has one of those rich‚ voluptuous mezzos that entrance...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.24

Renewed praise first of all for Graham Johnson, author of this huge project. We should feel privileged to be present...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996

Brahms; Bridge; Enescu Chamber Works

If you have the initial impression, as I had, that this is a motley collection of pieces, lacking focus, I’d...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2007

J. Adams Shaker Loops; Light Over Water

Shaker Loops was John Adams's first major success, and for all the media coverage of his more recent, often more...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Schubert Piano Sonatas Nos 20 & 21

When writing these last two sonatas just a couple of months before his death, Schubert was still only 31. Yet...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1989

Verdi (I) Vespri Siciliani

This recording, like Verdi’s opera, has attracted mixed reviews over the years. Composed for Paris in 1855, Les Vepres siciliennes...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 1/2008

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 1 & 7

The only other CD account of the First Symphony is from Neeme Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra on BIS/Conifer,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1985

Wagner (The) Ring, An Orchestral Adventure; Siegfried Idyll

Dutch composer Henk de Vlieger describes his symphonic synthesis of the complete Ring cycle as “An Orchestral Adventure”, following very...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2008

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