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Review of Trumpet and Organ Spectacular

Trumpet and Organ Spectacular

Cards on the table straight away. The more I hear of trumpet and organ the more unsatisfactory and uninspiring I...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1992

Review of Widor Organ Symphony No 4

Widor Organ Symphony No 4

I expressed reservations about Joseph Nolan’s debut CD (1/03), both from the playing and programming points of view. This disc...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 3/2005

Review of Cello & Piano Works

Cello & Piano Works

Try the first 25 seconds of this CD on a musical friend and ask that friend who the composer is,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990

Review of Busoni Piano Works, Vol 1

Busoni Piano Works, Vol 1

This is one of the finest issues of piano music by Busoni that I have heard since Geoffrey Douglas Madge's...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1994

Review of Leontyne Price - Rediscovered Carnegie Hall Concert

Leontyne Price - Rediscovered Carnegie Hall Concert

Please turn the clock back 37 years! How one would love to have been present at this memorable evening. By...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2002

Review of Grieg and Svendsen Orchestral Works

Grieg and Svendsen Orchestral Works

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra made their American debut on record many years ago, but UK collectors have only been able...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Review of Ravel Daphnis et Chloé Ballet

Ravel Daphnis et Chloé Ballet

Haitink, mainly with the Concertgebouw, has shown himself a deeply sympathetic conductor of French impressionist music, and here he directs...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1990

Review of Russian Soul

Russian Soul

First, the bottom line: this is an inestimably important cello release, one that no aficionado of great string playing can...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2002

Review of Mozart Horn Concerti

Mozart Horn Concerti

There are, at my last count, some 16 different CDs of the Mozart horn concertos and standards are high. They...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1988

Review of Rameau Ballets

Rameau Ballets

Pygmalion is, perhaps, Rameau's most consistently alluring acte de ballet whose overture, at least, was greatly admired in the composer's...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1992


 

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