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Macmilian Raising Sparks

Martyn Brabbins and the Nash Ensemble here offer a superb recording première of a major work by James MacMillan. Like...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Chopin Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (transcribed for piano and quartet)

The issues surrounding Chopin’s orchestration in his youthful piano concertos are well known, and many attempts have been made to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 3/2009

Wiegold Earth and Stars

Although Peter Wiegold has been a mainstay of creative projects in the UK over three decades, chances to hear his...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2010

Balakirev Piano Works

Balakirev’s musical invention may not always be equally inspired, but there is an appealing melodic and harmonic richness, with an...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Tournemire Symphonies

The playing in the first two instalments of this series of Charles Tournemire’s eight orchestral symphonies, conducted by the late...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Haydn Mass 11; Vivaldi Gloria, RV589

''Arguably Haydn's greatest single composition'': so wrote H. C. Robbins Landon in his sleeve-note for the original Argo recording of...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 2/1989

Bach Harpsichord Suites

With all respect to Emer Buckley's annotation, the ascription of BWV1006a as a lute work has by now become part...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1990

Nielsen Symphonies

The Nielsen symphonies are at last coming into their own on CD. There are four complete cycles now available (Blomstedt...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1992

Tchaikovsky Album for the Young

It's a lifetime since I last heard or played these little pieces, average length just over a minute each, and...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos

On Karl Böhm’s demise, Wolfgang Sawallisch – another Strauss specialist – was summoned from Munich to Salzburg to replace him...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2005

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