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Reich Sextet; Piano Phase; 8 Lines

Time was when Steve Reich’s music was the exclusive domain of his own ensemble: then he was signed to Boosey...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 9/2008

Works for String Orchestra by Lucerne Composers

The spacious introduction to the symphony at once proclaims Otaka’s considerable Elgarian instincts: not only is the playing exceptionally refined...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1996

English Recorder Music

Carl Dolmetsch (1911-97) not only pioneered the return of the recorder to the London concert scene, but did his utmost...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Beethoven Symphony No. 7

A letter in the May edition expresses amazement at Gramophone’s ‘hysterical adulation’ of Beecham recordings, and while it...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Strings! The Definitive Collection

In what terms might this collection be described as 'definitive'? I have no idea, but, sales promotion being what it...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1994

Works for String Quartet

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (b. 1919) used to be a prominent name in a certain music publisher's catalogue, but his music has...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1992

Poulenc Stabat mater; Motets

Twenty years or so after his first recording of these two works (cassette only—HMV TCC2-POR1545979, 4/64), Pretre has returned to...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1986

Verdi Il giorno di Regno

It has always been something of a puzzle to me that Un giorno di regno still awaits a fully professional...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1989

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Since it is the critic’s job to pontificate, what does one do about a performance so satisfying that, after it,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1996

Schumann Symphonies Nos 3 and 4

The really great moment here occurs as the transition to the Fourth Symphony’s finale edges in from the fragmented close...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2011

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