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Pfitzner Lieder - Complete Edition, Vol 1

CPO’s ‘complete edition’ of Pfitzner’s songs is evidently going to be very complete. Several of the songs in this first...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1999

Milhaud Service Sacré

Commissioned in 1947 by Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco and premièred under the composer’s baton to great critical acclaim two...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2005

Rore Missa Praeter rerum seriem; Motets

This latest record from Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars begins with a magisterially concentrated and evocative account of one...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 6/1994

Dutilleux Orchestral Works

For a long time, musical opinion tended to dismiss Henri Dutilleux as a pale imitation of Messiaen or as a...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Bantock Orchestral Works

The indefatigable Vernon Handley's exploration of the furthest reaches of British music has now taken him into Granville Bantock territory,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1991

Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 3

This disc completes the Endellions’ Tchaikovsky set. The elegiac Third Quartet shows a typically spirited approach, with wide-ranging expression. The...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2005

Mahler Symphony No 9

The key to the spirit of this remarkable performance comes on page six of Benjamin Zander’s booklet-note: ‘The ideal orchestra...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1999

Mendelssohn Symphonies

There is much to be said in favour of both these new CDs of the Scottish Symphony. Dohnanyi in his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1989

Dennis Brain - Chamber Works

This is a marvellous record which does the fullest justice to the art of Dennis Brain, whom Boyd Neel called...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: /2000

Purcell King Arthur

King Arthur was conceived as a libretto by John Dryden as early as 1684 but since it conveyed extreme partiality...

Reviewed in issue 6/1995

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