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Mozart Chamber Works for Wind

This record seems to me slightly unnecessary. There are plenty of excellent recordings to be had of the two great...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1993

Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues

For the collector looking for a single version of Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues there is no easy choice just at...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2001

Les Misérables Original Soundtrack

Basil Poledouris is an expert in the fusion of music and images, but probably few realize that he also holds...

Reviewed in issue 9/1998

Marais Folies d'Espagne

It is always a thrill to hear a performance of newly discovered music by a favourite composer, especially when it...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2002

R. Strauss Scenes from Elektra & Salome

Solti's now-infamous comment that the Chicago Symphony was a provincial orchestra before he appeared is further discounted by the reissue...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1993

Jean Sibelius - (The) Early Years; Maturity and Silence

It seems amazing to think that Christopher Nupen’s brace of films on Sibelius are 22 years old. As he declares...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2006

Organ Fireworks Vol 13

Another characteristically wide-ranging programme for the latest addition to Hyperion’s Organ Fireworks series. The four-manual, 63-stop organ of Västerås Cathedral...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 8/2009

Scriabin Symphony 3

This follows close on the heels of Pritchard's BBC recording and I should also draw attention to the fine version...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

The conjunction of Beethoven's first and last sonatas makes for a startling rather than an illuminating contrast, it may be...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 3/1988

Mendelssohn Complete String Symphonies

Adolescent symphonies ‘once summarily tossed aside as immature’ (as the booklet-notes put it) but which, during the last decade or...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999

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