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In Nomine: English Consort Works

Many thanks to Fretwork—the English consort to watch—for having dignified the native In Nomine with a CD. For the uninitiated,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1988

Beethoven Complete Symphonies

For the committed record-buyer, the selection of Beethoven symphonic cycles in the current cat-alogue is deliciously inviting: so many exciting,...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1993

Stravinsky Ballet Music

Already there is a consistency about the sound of Haitink's 'new-look' Stravinsky ballets. As with the recent Petrushka (10/91), we...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991

Rossini Demetrio e Polibio

If Rossini operas were numbered in the same way as Bruckner symphonies, Demetrio e Polibio would rank as his Opera...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1997

Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos

Listening to the Mullova again confirms my earlier impression. The Sibelius is magnificent: stern, vigorous and entirely free from the...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1987

Danzi & Lachner: Wind Quintets

The cheerful, garrulous music of Franz Danzi will be familiar to anyone who has listened to wind quintets. But this...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1988

Bach Solo Cello Suites

When Casals first introduced, to a sceptical public, Bach’s complete Solo Cello Suites (until then considered a purely academic exercise...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1998

Satie Piano Works

Satie seems to be the 'flavour of the month', and although the record catalogue is certainly not short of surveys...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1994

Mahler Symphony No 9

“We don’t want to enter a ‘friendly competition’; that would be truly stupid,” says Pierre Boulez in the bonus documentary...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 9/2011

Duke Complete Piano Solo 1939-40

Vladimir Dukelsky left Russia shortly after the 1917 revolution and his career as a serious composer was based in New...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2005

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