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Dvorák Symphonic Poems

It is surprising how few records there have been which re-create the triptych of the three concert overtures that Dvorak...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992

Balakirev Orchestral Works

The first recording of Balakirev's C major Symphony was made for Columbia in 1949 by Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990

Mahler Symphony No 2

The Klemperer and Walter recordings (to say nothing of the old and eccentric Hermann Scherchen set) were my education in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/1990

Bantock Omar Khayyám

Granville Bantock is the kind of British late-Romantic that Europeans from Herbert von Karajan to present-day casting directors have always...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2007

Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 2

The booklet is unforthcoming, but HobXVI/5 and HobXVI/16 on Roland Batik’s disc are probably not by Haydn. Georg Feder in...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2004

Sandström & Stenhammar String Quartets

An imaginative and well-realized coupling. Stenhammar’s Sixth Quartet is a model of formal economy and understated eloquence. The Sandstrom is...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1998

Mozart Gran Partita

There are already numerous excellent recordings of this work, and here's another, which for sheer technical accomplishment is at least...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1993

Schoenberg Chamber Works

Eighteen years after their first issue, these Schoenberg performances by the London Sinfonietta remain hard to beat. The reason is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1992

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons is not the most obviously suitable repertoire for the Vienna Philharmonic, normally playing with at least four...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

McCabe Chamber Works

The renegade composers of Bang on a Can have been quietly growing up. Even David Lang, the ‘brattiest’ of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2003

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