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Holst (The) Planets; Japanese Suite; Beni Mora

Vol 2 in Chandos’s Holst series finds Sir Andrew Davis stepping into the breach left by Richard Hickox’s death. Certainly,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2011

Poulenc Chamber Works

Poulenc's last two chamber works here flank three others from 1918-26. The Clarinet Sonata and Oboe Sonata date from 1962...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Mahler Symphony No 4

I reviewed this performance in some detail last month. It is the only CD version of the Fourth available at...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1984

Ginastera Pampeana

Both of these well-produced discs would make near-ideal introductions to this versatile composer’s output, featuring three of his finest orchestral...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2003

Beethoven Violin Sonatas, 'Spring' & 'Kreutzer'

An unusual but fascinating format for reissuing historical recordings; I can thoroughly recommend these discs as an easy way of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2003

Miaskovsky Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5

So long as the listed alternative versions are in the catalogue, this new issue will be uncompetitive. Rozhdestvensky’s superlative account...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Mozart Symphonies, Vol. 5

Volume 5 brings us to the eight symphonies which date from 1775–83, not a long timespan but almost one quarter...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1988

Beethoven Piano Trios

The playing of Kyung-Wha Chung—sweet, sentient and sharply defined—almost persuaded me again of the violin's adapted and adopted role in...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 1/1995

Prokofiev Symphony No 6, Op 111; Waltz Suite,Op 110

Right from the first, goose-stepping bars, the lower brass of Kuchar’s Ukrainian orchestra help to make this an often uncompromising...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

I Wish It So - Dawn Upshaw

Bernstein, Blitzstein Sondheim and Weill are a good quartet to explore in a recital. The connections between the four are...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/1994

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