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Literes Los Elementos

This latest offering from Al Ayre Espanol is as fascinating as their three previous discs (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 8/95, 1/96...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 10/1998

Kletzki Symphony No 3; Concertino for Flute & Orchestra

British readers of a certain age may associate Pawel Klecki, or Paul Kletzki, (1900-73) with the 1950s: he was briefly...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2004

Mozart String Quartets

Mozart’s profound debt to Haydn in the six string quartets he dedicated to the composer (of which the Franz Schubert...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Handel Radamisto

Radamisto is one of the few persuasive examples that Handel’s London operas directly reflected contemporary politics. Its plot concerns the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2005

Knussen Chamber Music

The reference in Rilke's poem Gravity to an ''irresistible centre'' is an apt clue to what is most distinctive in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1993

The Edge of Space

The Gordon Jacob Concerto, written for the great Archie Camden in 1935, is entirely winning, a work to grace any...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1994

Sir Henry's Themes and Variations

Until recently, Sir Henry Wood's CD presence centred largely round a couple of popular catalogue mainstays from the pre-war years:...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Debussy Piano Works, Volume 2

It would be easy to describe these performances as more literal than evocative and leave it at that. Yet how...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2000

Sibelius/Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos

Though the majority of my comparisons may be with female violinists, more and more as I have listened to these...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1996

Piano Works

Of these three CDs of me Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto the Gavrilov is undoubtedly the most distinctive. The opening is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1988

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