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Brahms Requiem

Although there are at least half a dozen historic recordings of this glorious work that boast a more striking profile...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Handel Coronation Anthems

This isn’t a typical modern performance of the four coronation anthems, but it’s still a highly enjoyable and inspiriting one....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/2003

Holst (The) Planets

Whatever the genesis of The Planets (the keyboard version came first as a working copy from which the scoring...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2009

Alwyn Symphonies Nos 2, 3 and 5

William Alwyn is a leading member of the 'lost' generation of British composers, who wrote important music in the central...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1992

Ravel. Music for Piano, Four Hands

This new CD from The Netherlands features a youngish piano duo who have already recorded for Etcetera the Dvorak Legends,...

Reviewed by cheddington in issue: 11/1988

Leoncavallo Pagliacci

By now the last ripples from the “Collection” article on Pagliacci (3/08) will have died down and the time has...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2008

Kiepura & Eggerth in The Charm of La Bohème

I must begin with a warning. Both in terms of picture and sound quality these videos are, to put it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1997

Hallström Duke Magnus and the Mermaid

Ivar Hallström (1826-1901) was one of the most important 19th-century Swedish composers, primarily of opera. Although Singspiel-type works had appeared...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2003

Debussy/Ravel String Quartets

The Orlando Quartet was rightly acclaimed in these columns only a few months ago for their record of two Haydn...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1984

Smetana The Bartered Bride

In Opera on Record 3 (Hutchinson: 1983), Peter Tanner in his chapter on this opera commented that it was a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1994

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