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Twenty Fanfares for the Common Man

Between 1931 and 1946 Sir Eugene Goossens, then conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, commissioned 19 fanfares—mainly from American composers—12...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1991

Taneyev At the Reading of a Psalm

The psalm is No 50 in the King James Bible: ‘The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken’. God appears...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2004

Bestiario de Cristo

This imaginative recording of 13th-century polyphony is definitely one for your collection, even if you have never encountered this repertory...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 1/2004

R Strauss Guntram

'Influenced by Wagner' is the standard reflex reaction to Strauss's first opera, Guntram, and it's true, of course, nowhere more...

Reviewed in issue 9/1988

Britten Piano Concerto; Debussy Fantaisie

This disc leaves me with an uncomfortable sense of ambivalence. I will lay my cards down from the start: I...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 10/1997

Dohnanyi plays and conducts

Alan Sanders compared Dohnanyi's 1956 recording of the Nursery Variations made with Sir Adrian Boult and the RPO (EMI,1/90) unfavourably...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1992

Chabrier Piano Works

Chabrier’s name lives on primarily through España and Marche joyeuse. His tiny output for piano is far too rarely encountered...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2006

Golijov Ayre; Berio Folk Songs

For Folk Songs, Luciano Berio gathered together melodies from varied locations and of starkly diverse character (adding a few folksy...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 3/2006

Shostakovich Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

This coupling of the two Shostakovich violin concertos could hardly be more welcome, when it so completely explodes the idea...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1990

Schubert Lieder

Margaret Price's admirers, many of whom greeted her Barbican recital last season so ecstatically, will be delighted that at last...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1983

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