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(The) Film Music of Stanley Black

Conductor and pianist Stanley Black wore many hats in the world of light music, including that of music director for...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 7/2005

Noel!

First came Carols for Choirs‚ then the new Oxford Book of Carols and now Noël!. New carol anthologies appear as...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 5 & 9

The solo playing of Jeremy Menuhin and his artistic partnership with his father is not overgenerously represented on record, so...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1986

Vivaldi New Discoveries

Naïve’s anthology of “New Discoveries” is supervised by Federico Maria Sardelli, an accomplished recorder-player and also a musicologist at the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2009

Gibbons Keyboard Works

John Toll recently succumbed to cancer in his early fifties‚ thus depriving the world of a supreme continuo player‚ in...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Wuorinen Orchestral & Chamber Works

To my mind, the best of the compositions by the American composer Charles Wuorinen on these discs is the Second...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1993

Vaughan Williams Songs with orchestra

Neither of these song cycles was originally written with orchestral accompaniment. On Wenlock Edge was scored for accompaniment of piano...

Reviewed in issue 9/1984

Riley In C

It would of course be perfectly possible for a suitably instructed computer to perform Terry Riley’s In C on electronic...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

Beethoven Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky Sérénade Mélancolique

How shocking that this inspired reading of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, with Menuhin directing his own Festival Orchestra, should have...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003

Berlioz Orchestral Works

This latest version of Harold in Italy, the most richly recorded yet, not only brings the characterful viola playing of...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1988

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