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Holmboe Chamber Concertos, Vol. 1

Hard on the heels of BIS’s splendid brass concertos issue (3/97) comes the first volume in DaCapo’s survey of Holmboe’s...

Reviewed in issue 4/1997

The Elgar Edition Acoustic Recordings 1914-25

One of Pearl's first ventures in the early 1970s was the step by step reissue of all Elgar's acoustic recordings...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Honegger (Une) Cantate de Noël

The works collected here cover the full range of Honegger’s mature career, from the volatile “mimed symphony” Horace victorieux, his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2009

Ligeti Etudes pour Piano; Invention; Musica Ricercata etc

Communicating the originality, quality and, yes, enjoyment to be found in the music of the post-war avant-garde is no easy...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2000

Machaut (Le) Remède de Fortune

It’s quite rare for musicians to approach a Machaut recital from the standpoint of his literary output, but the role...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2009

Beethoven Rasumovsky Quartets

Having completed their survey for Teldec of the late Beethoven quartets and the Opp. 74 and 95 works (reviewed variously...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1991

Bach Goldberg Variations (String Trio Arr)

Dimitri Sitkovetsky’s string trio arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations ingenuously deals with such challenges as how to partition judiciously two-part...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2007

Bach Harpsichord Works

Quite a following has built up for Skip Sempe's free-wheeling and imaginative approach to harpsichord literature. He is a performer...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/1994

Reimann Song Cycles

Aribert Reimann brings vast experience, both as composer and interpreter, to his creative transcriptions of these ‘golden age’ Lieder. The...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/1998

Delius/Elgar String Quartets

A good coupling: just two years separate the two quartets. Two of the most tragic years of the world's history;...

Reviewed in issue 9/1984

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