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Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral works

Svetlanov fills an obvious gap in the catalogue. Although, by western expectations, the brass tends to bray a bit, otherwise...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1986

Heifetz Early Victor Recordings, 1917-18

All the recordings listed above were made when Heifetz was still a young man, and they show that in his...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Schubert and Strauss Lieder

A revelatory reissue, this, not least for its three Strauss orchestral songs, conducted by the composer himself. Both Heimliche Aufforderung...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1986

Weyse (The) Sleeping Draught

Sovedrikken (‘The Sleeping Draught’) was the first of Christoph Weyse’s six operas‚ successful at its première in Copenhagen in 1809...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Martin (Le) Vin herbé

Scored for 12 voices, piano and string septet, Frank Martin’s setting of the legend of Tristan and Isolde, with its...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2007

Bernard Stevens Chamber Works

Things seem to be looking up for the British string quartet. Not only are the Britten and Tippett quartets firmly...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991

Britten the Performer - Debussy/Haydn/Mendelssohn/Mozart

This may seem a strange mixture, but Britten as conductor brings to each item a striking freshness. How unusual it...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1999

Sit Fast, Volume 1

Musical associations can be maddeningly insistent. Years passed before I could divorce organ music from religious services, brass bands from...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Berkeley, L (A) Dinner Engagement

Fifty years ago in June A Dinner Engagement was premièred at the Aldeburgh Festival. It was written for Britten’s English...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2004

Leopold Godowsky Piano Transcriptions

Some years ago a critic remarked that the difficulties of Godowsky's 53 Studies on Chopin's 27 Studies—his most widely discussed...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1992

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