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Ireland/Vaughan Williams Works for Strings

John Farrer and the English Sinfonia turn in a sturdy, spick-and-span account of Ireland’s Concertino pastorale, enjoyable in its straightforward...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1997

R. Strauss: Vocal works

It is good to have these Soderstrom performances on a budget-price label. The record companies showed poor judgement in not...

Reviewed in issue 8/1986

Verdi I vespri siciliani

This is the most exciting new set of a Verdi opera for a very long time. It is justification, if...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991

Peace in our Time - Music of Peace and War

An imaginative and varied sequence, eloquently realized by one and all. Twenty-two-year-old St Paul’s Cathedral Organ Scholar Benjamin Nicholas gives...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Finzi, A Inni alla Notte; (Il) Salmo; Stravinsky Firebird Suite

No, not Gerald, but Aldo Finzi (1897-1945), a Milanese composer who had studied at Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatoire and enjoyed...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2004

Mompou Piano Works

Back in March 2000 I remarked that Martin Jones’s scrupulously sensitive but self-effacing artistry made you long for a complete...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2004

Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (highlights)

Handel has the lion's share in this enjoyable mixed bag of arias, sacred and secular, well and less-well known, and...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1988

Dedicated to Christian Lindberg

In the wake of the charming pair of Nordic trombone concerto discs I reviewed in the May issue comes another...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2007

Polish Chamber Orchestra live in Glasgow

Relatively few releases present a good case for live recordings: this one, however, most certainly does! Here we find that...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1991

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

Claudio Arrau's one previous recording of the Diabelli Variations was made in 1952 and issued here on the Brunswick label...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1987

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