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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Any home-grown Royal Concertgebouw collection has at least one distinct advantage over similar anthologies devoted to other orchestras: the superlative...

Reviewed in issue 2/1994

Ginastera Vol. 4 - String Quartets

Though he had already written a great deal, including two ballets, two symphonies and various choral works, only relatively late...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1996

Elgar Orchestral Works

Every recording Jacqueline du Pre has left us is to be treasured as a memorial to a great artist who...

Reviewed in issue 4/1988

Reger Piano Works

In his booklet-essay RC notes that ‘when critical reparations are meted out, Max Reger should be first in line to...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Stravinsky Le Rossignol; Renard

The Nightingale is an awkward piece, begun before The Firebird but finished, unwillingly, only after Stravinsky had decisively changed his...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/2000

Stephan/Zemlinsky Orchestral Works

This is the North Netherlands Orchestra’s first recording to be issued in the UK. They were founded in 1989 and...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1996

Josef Hofmann, Vol 5

Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) is among music’s most jealously guarded legends. For his admirers (and they included Anton Rubinstein and Rachmaninov)...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1997

Stravinsky Ragtime etc.

We know that ‘small’ can be ‘beautiful’, but that it can also be musically significant passes certain commentators by. Not,...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Tye/Mundy Vocal Works

Two alternatim pieces by Mundy, with smooth legato chant sections, offset, in this recording, by Tye's well-known, six-part Euge Bone...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 2/1995

Hawkins Songs and Chamber Works

John Hawkins (born in 1949 and a student of Malcolm Williamson and Elisabeth Lutyens) is a name new to me...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2004

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