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Beethoven/Bruch Violin Concertos

Kyung Wha Chung has recorded both of these central concertos before, but in this generous and attractive coupling these EMI...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1992

Willaert/Rore/Lassus/Manchicourt Sacred Choral Works

None of the composers in this recital have received the sort of coverage they deserve (no, not even Lassus: how...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1999

Liszt Piano Concertos

These are old recordings by CD standards, and one is aware of background tape hiss in such passages as the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1984

Wuorinen Piano Works

This latest product of Alan Feinberg’s genius is quite different from the eccentric Argo anthologies I have increasingly admired (1/91,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1996

Joseph James Requiem after J S Bach

This is the work of two composers, Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown (their middle names provide the nom...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1999

Zemlinsky Lyrische Symphonie & Symphonische Gesänge

Zemlinsky is still a far from repertory composer. No recording company can bank on a group of reliable 'Zemlinsky specialists'...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994

20th Century English Choral Works

This superb Dutch group under their permanent guest conductor, John Alldis, offer high-class choral singing. The magical start of “Full...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1998

Puccini Il Trittico

The late Giuseppe Patane's Munich recording of Il trittico appeared earlier on three separate discs. Not only were they at...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1990

McDowall, C Choral Works

Dutton’s fourth anthology devoted to the music of Cecilia McDowall (b1951) launches in delightful fashion with Laudate (2008), an exuberant...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2009

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-6 & K.242

These piano concertos are derivative works, written by a boy of 11 in the case of Nos. 1–4—which are actually...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1989

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