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Furtwängler Symphony No 2

Furtwangler's Second Symphony was of great personal importance to its composer who toured the piece extensively, recorded it for DG...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

La Rue Missa cum iocunditate & Motets

As the market for polyphony of the Josquin generation opens up—thanks partly to the astonishing success of The Tallis Scholars...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 8/1992

Debussy/Ravel Chamber Works

I am afraid that something immediately upset me right at the opening of the Ravel Trio in this new version,...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 2/1987

Chris Norman - Man with the Wooden Flute

The wooden flute used in most of this programme is English, from the first half of the nineteenth century, two...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1992

Orchestral Works - Cantelli

This is the third disc in Testament's very desirable series of Cantelli reissues (Debussy, 10/92 and Brahms/Wagner, 2/93). L'apprenti sorcier...

Reviewed in issue 7/1993

(The) Baroque Lute - Andrew Maginley

I last encountered Andrew Maginley's playing on the “Calliope” album (Avie, 11/06) where he joins contralto Emma Curtis and The...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2006

Rachmaninov Vespers

The St Petersburg Chamber Choir sing the Vespers, or All-Night Vigil, dramatically, suggesting comparisons with Rostropovich rather than with the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1994

Williams Superman: The Movie

Scarcely has any composer since Sousa exhibited such a facility for marches and parades as John Williams. Midway (1976) and...

Reviewed by Marwalker in issue: 12/1998

Bruckner Symphony No 8

Over a quarter of a century has passed since Solti recorded a rather bloated and wayward account of Bruckner's Eighth...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1992

Holmboe String Quartets, Vol. 1

At last the Holmboe quartets are making a long overdue appearance on CD. In one of our contemporaries I see...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1994

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