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Mozart Wind Serenades, K375 & K388

The young wind soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe make an outstanding team, as they showed on their recent...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

From the Steeples and the Mountains

A fascinating concert, perhaps the most interesting and enterprising brass collection I have yet encountered, in a growing repertoire which...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1992

Echoes from Russia

Anton Arensky (1861–1906), an admired pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov and friend of Tchaikovsky also taught Rachmaninov and Scriabin. In addition, he...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1993

Previn From Ordinary Things

By his songs you shall know him. That could well be the last word on Andre Previn, the composer. Time...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1997

Humperdinck Dornröschen

Having honed his musical style while assisting Wagner on Parsifal at Bayreuth, Engelbert Humperdinck applied it primarily to composing fairy-tale...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2011

Marschner Hans Heiling

Heinrich Marschner’s evident heroes were Mozart, Beethoven and Weber (whom he attempted to succeed at the Dresden Court Theatre in...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2005

Saint-Saëns Complete Cello and Orchestra Works

Winner of the 12th Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2002, Johannes Moser is one of the finest among the astonishing...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2009

Byrd Motets

This sacred music once sung in secret fills a great cathedral with power and majesty Durham Cathedral can take pride in...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 2/2004

Liszt A Faust Symphony

Ferencsik's three character portraits are quicker and less portentous than in some other hands. His Faust is less the melancholy...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1987

Albéniz Works for Guitar

Here we have the third integral recording by a guitarist of the Suite espanola and the first of Recuerdos de...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1994

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