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Alwyn Orchestral Works

Alwyn's First Symphony is an essentially flamboyant work, dating from 1950 and appropriately dedicated to Sir John Barbirolli, who conducted...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1993

Fauré Mélodies

In principle a complete disc of Fauré songs is a good idea. Too often these are included as makeweights in...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 2/2005

Rameau Pièces de clavecin en concerts

This interesting recording of Rameau's Pieces de clavecin en concerts was issued in 1960 though made, I suspect, some while...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1994

Maggie Teyte - Chansons

There was some sort of magic in the air at the EMI Abbey Road Studios in London on March 12th...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/1995

The Golden Dream 17th Century Music from the Low Countries

The music of The Netherlands after about 1600 has never been granted a great deal of recording space, even in...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1996

Mozart Piano concertos 18 & 19, arr fortepiano

Malcolm Bilson's Mozart series with the English Baroque Soloists reaches, with this fourth disc, the concertos of the later part...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1986

Jonathan Harvey 2

This is the second recording of what must rank as one of Jonathan Harvey’s most important and approachable works. No...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1996

Scriabin Piano Sonatas, Volume 1

The first volume of Bernd Glemser’s cycle of Scriabin piano sonatas follows hard on the heels of Marc-Andre Hamelin’s dazzlingly...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996

Tippett Orchestral Works

Given that the first movement of Tippett's Piano Concerto grows directly out of the lyrically ecstatic music of his first...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2000

Offenbach Overtures

Neville Marriner and the Philharmonia show us a mutually enjoyable engagement with these Offenbach offerings, deliciously and digitally recorded by...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

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