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Cresswell (The) Voice Inside

Now in his sixties and long resident in the UK, Lyell Cresswell has retained strong links with his native New...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2010

Massenet Manon

Although this set never had the cachet of the Werther which has recently won a Gramophone Award in the Historical...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1990

Mendelssohn; Schubert; Strauss, R Lieder

By the time Gruberová first appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1980, at 34, she had already established herself as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2005

Zender Music to hear

This is the third disc of Zender’s music I have reviewed in these pages, and the voice features prominently in...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2003

Telemann Paris Quartets

The title ‘Paris Quartets’ is a little misleading in the context of the pieces on this disc. The two Sonatas,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1999

Lutoslawski Chain II; Schnittke Viola Concerto

Here are two ten-year-old works that make a well-contrasted pair. Schnittke's Viola Concerto is the last word in neo-romantic anguish,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1995

Historical Clarinet Recordings, Vol.2

How critically aware are you of dissimilarities in instrumental timbre? As an exercise for specialists in differentiating and identifying clarinet...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1995

Bach: Organ works

The organ sounds a good deal richer on this CD version, the bass especially having a good deal more character,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1984

Sibelius Kullervo Symphony

Kullervo grows in my estimation every time I hear it, and I cannot understand why Sibelius judged it so harshly....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1996

Sauguet Symphony No 2

This work, written in 1949 for the Prix Italia, in conformity with that organization’s encouragement of new forms and resources,...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1997

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