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Sibelius Orchestral Works

I noted felicitous details in earlier issues in the Segerstam cycle alongside some questionable interpretative touches. This account of the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1993

Chopin Piano Concerto No 1

This companion issue to Emanuel Ax’s outstanding disc of the Second Concerto (6/98) and other concertante pieces similarly offers period...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1999

Awake my Glory

Two substantial and imaginative settings of words by the eighteenth-century poet, Christopher Smart, frame this rewarding concert from the three...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1999

Ravel: orchestral works

These performances, recorded between 1971 (Daphnis et Chloe) and 1976 (Pavane) in the Concertgebouw, are predictably satisfying as orchestral playing...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1987

Donizetti Songs

This is the kind of record which might, and should not, go under in the flood: there are so many...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Tavener (The) Protecting Veil; Last Sleep of the Virgin

There are now five recordings of Tavener’s The Protecting Veil available on CD – a worthy indication of a contemporary...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 2/1999

Pärt; Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli

Apart from the fact that this is simply heavenly singing and the music absolutely divine, there seems no earthly reason...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/2012

Dittersdorf 6 Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses

Dittersdorf's Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses, written about the time of Haydn's ''Paris'' Symphonies and Mozart's Prague Symphony, are less...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1990

Liszt Anness de Pelerinage, Italie; Venezia e Napoli

Book 2 of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage celebrates an impassioned‚ indeed delirious‚ response to Italy’s poetry and art. Both the...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Satie Piano Works, Vol 4

In 1968, the composer Robert Caby edited and published a number of Satie’s manuscript sketches and short pieces. He had...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 3/2004

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