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Sinding Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Was I too hard on Christian Sinding’s Second Symphony of 1904 when I first encountered it in August 2000 (‘a...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Saint-Saëns Orchestral works

The idea of teaming up Dutoit, outstanding among interpreters of French music today, with the ever-lively London Sinfonietta and its...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1987

Brahms Hungarian Dances

Robert Layton praised the playing or the original issue for its ''freshness and enthusiam'' and indeed found many of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1984

Trumpet and Organ Arrangements

This is a sheer delight. The programme might look like a mundane collection of popular miniatures arranged for trumpet (and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1989

Tallis Choral and Organ Works

What marks this recording out from other compilations of Tallis’s choral masterpieces is that the majority of the works here...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/1997

Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427

The C minor Mass has twice been recorded lately on period instruments; here we have a riposte, as it were,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1990

Brahms Choral and Orchestral Works

With this issue I am struck more than ever by the new character of the BPO under Abbado. Gone is...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Dyson Nebuchadnezzar; Woodland Suite

It was bold of Dyson in 1934, when commissioned to write a choral work for the Three Choirs Festival, to...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2007

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Ambitiously, Barry Douglas tackled the Hammerklavier in his first offering for RCA as a Beethoven pianist (6/88), and here he...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1994

Harp Music of the Italian Renaissance

Trabaci is surely welcome back to the catalogue. As one of the leading precursors of Frescobaldi he has a significant...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1987

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