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Handel Judas Maccabaeus

Achtung! This is the German Judas Maccabaeus, with no more of Handel than was permitted by its 19th-century editor and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2000

Liszt Complete Solo Piano Works, Vol 56

As Leslie Howard’s exhaustive survey of Liszt’s piano music draws to a close – this is the penultimate volume, with...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/1999

Spohr Symphonies Nos 3 & 6

Howard Shelley has a strong feeling for the varieties and subtleties of Spohr’s symphonic style, and here continues his cycle...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/2010

Cage Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra

Cage’s 1951 Concerto for Prepared Piano has not yet achieved the status of the Sonatas and Interludes of three years...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2004

Wesley Symphonies

He was the nephew of fiery John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, and Samuel was not without his fiery side...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2000

Lloyd, G Symphony No 5

In the canon of George Lloyd's symphonies the Fifth is among the cheerful ones, though not so throughout, nor without...

Reviewed in issue 1/1990

Günther Wand - My Life, My Music

Five very different conductors on four very different DVDs. That featuring Ancerl and Scherchen in rehearsal derives from two CBC...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2005

Franck; Shostakovich Violin Sonatas

The Khachatryans, brother and sister, make a formidable team. The recording is exceptional, too: finely balanced and with a wide...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2008

Hérold La fille mal gardé

As balletomanes will be aware (but others will want to know about this disc as well), La fille mal gardee...

Reviewed in issue 10/1983

Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas

Last December, when writing about the fourth of these recordings, I suggested they were to be counted among the best...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 3/1987

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