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(La) Trompette Retrouvée

Arthur Butterworth, composer and former principal-trumpet of Barbirolli's Hallé Orchestra, once lamented to me about the restricted use of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2007

Widor Organ Symphonies Nos 9 and 10

ASV’s six-disc series of the Widor symphonies has featured several organists and organs with varying degrees of success, and the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/2006

Contemporary Trumpet Music

The most striking aspect of the trumpet's extraordinary renaissance in the last 40 years is the extent to which composers'...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1994

Brahms/Dvorák Orchestral Works

Will there be a new fashion in coupling Brahms symphonies with overtures? Dvorak overtures? This is the second First Symphony...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993

Hochreither; Ramhaufski Gloria in Excelsis Deo

The Benedictine abbey at Lambach in Upper Austria was founded in 1056. Its library contains illuminated manuscripts of medieval music,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2008

Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works

Every home should probably have one. After all, Horowitz, that “ultimate wizard of the keyboard” (to borrow BM’s phrase), was...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/1998

Brahms Symphony No 1

Janowski's mid; 1980s Brahms cycle is now reissued by ASV on four super-bargain discs. The RLPO of nearly a decade...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Reynolds Coconino; Visions; Kokoro; Ariadne's Thread; Focus a Beam; emptied...

These two discs group together works composed for the members of the Arditti Quartet – individually and together – between...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000

Purcell Trumpet and Choral Works

In Purcell lore, Ode for St Cecilia’s Day – listed without a date – more often than not suggests the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1996

Verdi Il Corsaro

A pleasant nostalgia accompanies re-acquaintance with this recording, despite the fact that it was issued only 11 years ago. For...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

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