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Wellesz String Quartets Nos 3, 4 & 6

Viennese composer Egon Wellesz was very much a product of his times. Mahler’s conducting was an early influence, while Schoenberg...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2008

Martin Chamber Orchestral Works

This is a disc of exceptional excellence. The three works collected here have never before been better recorded and have...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1992

Bruckner Choral Works

This is the third Bruckner record by the Corydon Singers. The others contain motets (Hyperion A66062, 3/83; ( CDA66062, 7/86)...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1988

Bernstein: Orchestral Works

Following up the success of their first record for EMI, a coupling of two Aaron Copland's most popular ballet scores,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1987

(The) Reichorchester

What would you have done in the same circumstances? Had you or I been good enough to be one of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2008

Mattia Battistini (1856-1928)

The Old Master is with us again, and now in a rich variety of reproductions, for in addition to the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Finnissy Chamber Works

Michael Finnissy first came to prominence in the mid-1970s with his orchestral works Offshore and Sea and Sky and his...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 2/1992

Schubert Piano Works

Even before these two new arrivals, the Gramophone Compact Disc Catalogue overflowed with alternative recordings of Schubert's last piano sonata...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1990

Hovhannessian Symphony No 3; Marmar - Ballet Suite

A pupil of Khachaturian, Armenian Edgar Hovhannessian (b.1930) completed Marmar in 1956, compiling this tuneful orchestral suite some seven years...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999

Mozart Piano Quartets, K478 & K493

Mozart's two piano quartets come from the period that saw the composition of many of his finest piano concertos, and...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1988

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