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Berlioz/Debussy/Ravel Song Cycles

They slip out of view so easily, these singers who not long ago lit up our horizons whenever a new...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Holliger Vocal Works

This pair of early works by Heinz Holliger (b. 1939) shows what could happen when a Boulez pupil sought to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1994

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Salve Regina

Somewhat to my astonishment, there are now more than two dozen recordings of Pergolesi’s Stabat mater (including treasurable performances by...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1998

Sing, ye Heavens

The Service was the Lord’s; anthem, canticles, psalms and responsories were the choir’s; and the hymns were anybody’s. That (roughly)...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000

Britten Cello Suites

In reviewing Pieter Wispelwey's complete recording of the Bach solo suites (4/92) I expressed reservations over numerous aspects of his...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 8/1992

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

In the pantheon of essential Sibelius recordings, Barbirolli’s October 1962 account of the Second Symphony with the RPO deservedly occupies...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2008

Brahms Symphonies 1-4

European Brahms symphony cycles have an irritating habit of creeping on to the British CD market unnoticed (neither Kurt Sanderling’s...

Reviewed in issue 10/1998

Rossini Overture L'Italiana in Algeri; Brahms SymphonyNo.3; Schumann Symphony No.4

Not everyone loved Monteux. Stravinsky was not a fan (‘What a sad person, that Monteux!’) but many ordinary folk, disinterested...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Busoni Piano Works

Until he reached his mid twenties Busoni was an amazingly prolific composer. The F minor Sonata counts as an early...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1989

Bartók/Schoenberg/Veress Works for Strings

The closest musical relationship here is between Bartok and his piano student Sandor Veress, especially in the last of Veress’s...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

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