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Review of Ridout Cello Concertos

Ridout Cello Concertos

Congratulations to Black Box for rescuing these cello works by Alan Ridout (1934-96), a fine but neglected English composer who...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2003

Review of Basset Clarinet Concerto & Quintet

Basset Clarinet Concerto & Quintet

The selling points here are that for the first time both Mozart's major clarinet works have been accommodated on one...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Review of Verdi Otello

Verdi Otello

As I suggested when this performance appeared on VHS, this film of Otello is not to be overlooked, in spite...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2003

Review of The Hollywood String Quartet

The Hollywood String Quartet

Although the Schubert was reissued on LP in ''The Legendary Hollywood Quartet'' HMV set (9/81—nla), the Schoenberg has not appeared...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1994

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Review of Purcell: Vocal Works

Purcell: Vocal Works

Now three of our leading Purcellian conductors have produced fine recent versions of Come ye sons of art at three...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1990

Review of Handel & Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas

Handel & Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas

This attractive recording is strongly Oxford orientated. It is the joint enterprise of the University, the Ashmolean Museum and Isis...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1993

Review of Tippett Orchestral Works

Tippett Orchestral Works

I reacted enthusiastically to this release on its initial appearance and find no reason to amend my views five years...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Review of Klami Symphony No. 1

Klami Symphony No. 1

“The first thing to be said is that there is nothing in the symphony to remind one of Sibelius.” So...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Review of American Orchestral Works

American Orchestral Works

Carter's Variations may be relatively early (1956), but there's still plenty of inventive energy and fluctuating pace—in the central variations—to...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1994

Review of Mozart String Quartets

Mozart String Quartets

Some years ago, when CD was but a mere rumour, another rumour—one which, for historic-recording buffs, was infinitely more interesting—concerned...

Reviewed in issue 6/1993


 

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