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Rarities of Piano Music - 2008 Husum Festival

All of us owe a debt of gratitude to Peter Froundjian’s Schloss vor Husum Festival (which this CD celebrates) for...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2010

Bo Nilsson A Spirit's Whisper

To most readers, the name of Bo Nilsson is likely to be just that; he was one of a succession...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Modern Portraits II - Spivakov

Here is a neat conspectus of Soviet music for chamber orchestra forces in the immediate post-Shostakovich years. Schnittke in 1979...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Ravel Daphnis et Chloé

Without question this is the most beautiful of the Compact Discs I have heard so far. The original LP was...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1983

John Field Piano Works

Lucky Field—and lucky us too—that he has dedicated fellow-Dubliners like John O'Conor and Miceal O'Rourke to uphold him on disc....

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1995

Lutoslawski Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra

Volume 8 (the last?) of the Naxos Lutosawski series is nothing if not diverse, with several short pieces originally written...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2003

Italian Concerti Grossi

Capella Istropolitana is a chamber orchestra—here strings only, whose Naxos recordings already occupy considerable column-length in The Gramophone Classical Catalogue,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1995

Howells Choral & Organ Works, Vol 1

In the final grand summation I suppose Howells ranks as a minor composer, but he shares several qualities with the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1990

Verdi Ernani

“That ultra-classical product of Romanticism, the grandiose Italian opera in which the executive art consists in a splendid display of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2007

Arnold Overtures

Concerts are notoriously short these days, too often with only a pair of works and seldom an overture. I notice...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2005

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