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D.Heath The Celtic

The flautist-composer Dave Heath first came to prominence in 1978 with Out of the Cool, which openly flaunted the influence...

Reviewed by mharry in issue: 10/1997

Schoenfield Orchestral Works

Topical or not, the horrific tale of a quadriplegic murderer who ''disposed of his victims in a particularly heinous fashion''...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Schnittke Symphony 2 etc

Hard on the heels of Polyansky’s Chandos account comes yet another Schnittke Second Symphony, this time from the man who...

Reviewed in issue 8/1997

Korngold Die Kathrin

In the mid-1970s, when the revival of Korngold’s music got underway, not even the most ardent enthusiast can have imagined...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/1998

(The) Great Pianists - Levitski, Vol 2

Mischa Levitzky died at 42 in 1941. This bald fact probably accounts for his small recorded output. His detractors (including...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2004

Spohr Symphonies

All the nine symphonies that Spohr acknowledged are now available on record (he suppressed a tenth), and duplication is setting...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1994

Walter Gieseking, Vol.3

This really is a mixed bag. The earliest recordings, the Homochords, have pretty intolerable surface noise, so much so that...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1994

Hasse Pilgrims at the Tomb of Our Lord

North German-born Hasse led a brilliantly successful, cosmopolitan life. Vienna, Turin, Rome, Naples and Venice were all on his itinerary,...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1999

Slavonic Choral Works

If the term Missa brevis implies a work of slender dimensions intended for everyday use, then Kodaly's choice of that...

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

Rossini Bianca e Falliero

My abiding memory of this historic revival of Rossini's Bianca e Falliero, semi-staged in the Auditorium Pedrotti at the 1986...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1994

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