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Weill (The) Eternal Road - excs
No matter how good the score, any show with nearly 250 performers and 1800 costumes runs the risk of having...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 12/2003
Bolens Chamber and Orchestral Works
For his String Quartet ‘Some words of Rainer Maria Rilke’, 35-year-old Nicolas Bolens mirrors the poet’s ‘very few words’ with...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
Mozart Gala Concert
There are almost as many flavours of the bass voice in Mozart as there are Kochel numbers: these three releases...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1988
Heinz Holliger at the Opera
Gabriel Bürgin | Heinz Holliger | Ursula Holliger
This is an entertaining assembly. Holliger has long been adept at digging out odd bits and pieces of the nineteenth-century...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1991
Stravinsky Ballets
Stravinsky said jokingly that the opening bassoon solo in The Rite of Spring ought to be transposed up a semitone...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1989
Elgar Symphony No 1; Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Hallé Orchestra | John Barbirolli
On July 24, 1970 Sir John Barbirolli conducted (and recorded) this inspired Hallé performance of Elgar’s First Symphony in St...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2003
Britten & Tippett String Quartets
We might think of the Fourth Quartet as 'late Tippett', but there's little evidence that the composer thought of it...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1988
Vivaldi (7) Sonatas from Op 2
Aurora Ensemble | Enrico Gatti
The violin sonatas are still the cinderellas of Vivaldi’s output, a surprising state of affairs when you consider what his...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2007
Koechlin (Le) Docteur Fabricius; Vers la Voûte étoilée
Heinz Holliger | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Much of Koechlin’s highly individual orchestral music remains unexplored: indeed, both works here are premiere recordings. Before he became a...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2005
My Spirit Hath Rejoiced Settings of Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Christopher Dearnley | John Scott | St Paul's Cathedral Choir
Mag and Nunc, the Cav and Pag of the Anglican liturgy, have been known to generations of choristers by surname...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
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