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Gunther Herbig is certainly a man for repeats, I thought as I listened to the K63 Cassation; and does such slight music, even by Mozart, bear such repetition nowadays when we don't listen to it as background music? The only relief is that he lets us off the repeat of the second part of the Adagio...

There is some splendid individual playing here: often oboe or clarinet will turn a phrase poetically, and everybody keeps most agreeably in tune. The last point is worth mentioning—not to be taken for granted, as a sine qua non of recording— only because the use of old instruments, or modern...

In a well-ordered musical world the Gramophone Classical Catalogue would already represent Thea Musgrave by her Clarinet Concerto, Third Chamber Concerto and perhaps the Triptych. Records being the commercial business they are, living composers of straight music, even one so renowned as Musgrave,...

It is good that the gramophone companies are again turning their attention to Nielsen. After the complete survey of the symphonies from Ole Schmidt and the LSO on Unicorn, we are promised an eight-record set of the concertos and symphonies with miscellaneous orchestral works from the Danish Radio...