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Mozart Works for Oboe and Orchestra

I have to say at once that the new and well-recorded Novalis disc suffers from a handicap throughout in the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Gershwin Overtures

This recording, like its companion ''Kiri Sings Gershwin'' (reviewed on page 608), was made possible by the recent discovery of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1987

Bridge Piano Trios

It has taken more than five years for this enterprising anthology to reach the shops. Fortunately, the wait has been...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2000

Schurmann Orchestral Works

Gerard Schurmann has been an American resident for over ten years now. During his time in Britain in the 1960s...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Sibelius Symphony No 7;Rakastava;En saga;Kullervo

Those who recall Sir Colin Davis’s performance with the LSO of Kullervo at London’s Barbican Centre in 1992 (subsequently televised)...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1997

Weber Overtures

Claves give us both Berlioz’s famous orchestration of Invitation to the Dance as well as conductor Felix Weingartner’s altogether more...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1998

Wolf-Ferrari Susanna's Secret

“A clean-cut gem in its way it is, and cheerful withal”. Thus said the Daily Telegraph in 1919 when the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2010

Brahms Orchestral Works

Here are two vastly different performances of the same two works issued by Virgin Classics. Christoph Eschenbach has been Musical...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Petrassi Complete Concertos for Orchestra

Last year marked the birth centenaries of both Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi, and although there have been signs of...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2005

Haydn Mass Nos 9, 'Heiligemesse'; Mass No 10, Missa in tempore belli'

This rounds off Gardiner’s excellent series for Philips covering the six late Masses, all supreme masterpieces, which Haydn wrote for...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003

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