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Gavriil Popov (1904-72) is something of a mystery man of twentieth-century Russian music. He gets only a dozen nondescript lines in Grove, and does not fare much better in the standard (pre-glasnost) Soviet Muzykalnaya Entsiklopediya, where his music is described as "expressive, brightly...

The various Purcell releases of the last few years have come in many guises, from the wildly entertaining to the merely informative. This disc, containing instrumental theatre music, need only be enjoyed for what it is, which is an exhilarating reminder that, whatever Purcell was, he was simply...

Vladimir Ashkenazy's recorded partnerships with Kondrashin, Previn, Haitink, Ormandy and, as conductor, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, testify to his enduring affection for the Rachmaninov concertos. This present reissue with Previn and the LSO dates from 1972 yet the sound and balance are superb and...

Lyrita 0 CD SRCD291 (75 minutes: ADD/ DDD). Text included. Item marked a from SRCS90 (4/77), cArgo ZRG553 (3/68); both recorded in association with the British Council, bRawsthorne Trust: new to UK.

Poul Ruders may remind you at times of the minimalists, of the new spiritualists or of the polystylists of our age. Well, it is true that his range of stylistic reference is wide, but his music has a more active outlook than that of any of those specialinterest groups. Its 360-degree view of the...