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Review of Mengelberg condcuts Strauss & Wagenaar

Mengelberg condcuts Strauss & Wagenaar

In The Orchestra Speaks (Longman: 1938), Bernard Shore, then Principal Viola with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, gives a remarkable account...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Review of Mendelssohn Symphony No 3; String Sym No 11

Mendelssohn Symphony No 3; String Sym No 11

By all accounts – including those of the hostile Richard Wagner – Mendelssohn favoured urgent tempi when conducting his own...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2010

Review of Weber Euryanthe

Weber Euryanthe

This recording of Euryanthe should never be out of the catalogue—we need it to remind us what an important, original...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1986

Review of Mendelssohn Symphony No 2

Mendelssohn Symphony No 2

When I received the LPs of this version I had to disagree with Chailly's performance in one very important particular;...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Review of Mussorgsky & Saint-Saëns Orchestral Works

Mussorgsky & Saint-Saëns Orchestral Works

A fascinating comparison here, for both groups use Elgar Howarth's brilliant arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures and yet the colouristic matching...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1991

Review of Beethoven Variations

Beethoven Variations

Just 20 this year, and already three years into his contract with DG, Gianluca Cascioli already has three fine discs...

Reviewed in issue 7/1999

Review of Bach; Buxtehude German Baroque Cantatas

Bach; Buxtehude German Baroque Cantatas

All good marketing principles cast aside, Gli Angeli Genève have assembled five magnificent cantatas from contrasting 17th- and 18th-century North...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2008

Review of Grainger Original Works for Piano

Grainger Original Works for Piano

This is the most enjoyable and convincing piece of advocacy for Percy Grainger's music that I have heard for a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990

Review of Schubert (orch Reger) Songs

Schubert (orch Reger) Songs

Max Reger’s orchestral arrangements of 15 Schubert Lieder, made in 1913-14, are essentially period pieces. The big dramatic songs are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1999

Review of Maconchy Music for Voices

Maconchy Music for Voices

This well filled conspectus was made last year, Dame Elizabeth Maconchy’s centenary year. Her compositions, never less than civilised, prove...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2008


 

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