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Glière (The) Orchestral Collection

The 1991 recording of Ilya Muromets, Reinhold Glière’s epic Third Symphony, was the first the BBC Philharmonic made for Chandos,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2011

Turina Complete Violin Sonatas

Turina’s output of chamber music was relatively modest, some 16 works out of a little over 100 published pieces, five...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2007

Psaumes et Chansons de la Réforme

The French Reformation yielded a large, distinguished and (most of all) varied body of music to suit the new requirements...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2000

Krenek Lieder

Ernst Krenek died at 91 in 1991 and over the last decade he has deservedly come into his own on...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 8/1998

Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977

Bang! This is essential listening for any Reich enthusiast. We kick off with an absolutely vibrant Six Pianos that makes...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 13/2005

Shostakovich Symphonies 2 & 9

Haitink's account of the Ninth Symphony is one of the finest achievements in his Shostakovich cycle: what had sometimes seemed...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1986

French Orchestral Works

Marriner is becoming quite a master like Beecham himself at compiling lollipop records, and here in the French repertory he...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984

Meyerbeer/Cherubini Songs

A musical evening in Paris in the early 1800s could be a cosmopolitan affair. This programme of rarities pairs the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Weber Oberon

Oberon will always be a problem work. Weber wrote it for a set of English theatrical conventions, in which music...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993

Hefti, D ROTAS; Wunderhorn-Musick

David Philip Hefti (b1975) has emerged during a period in which the European avant-garde no longer dominates the new music...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2010

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