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Hoyland Orchestral Works
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Martyn Brabbins
Although Vic Hoyland has been a presence in contemporary music for three decades‚ his music has been poorly represented on...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
Gershwin American in Paris/Porgy & Bess Fantasy
Katia Labèque | Marielle Labèque
When dealing with the LP I commented on this hitherto unknown original edition of An American in Paris. On CD...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
American Piano Sonatas, Volume 2
I wrote enthusiastically about Peter Lawson's first volume of American piano sonatas (5/91) which contained Barber, Carter, Copland and the...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1994
Bernard van Dieren Collection
Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) has been much more talked about than played for as long as I can remember, but...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1994
Mozart Concert Arias
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Edita Gruberová | Nikolaus Harnoncourt
No one can question that Gruberova is among the most technically fluent sopranos of this, or perhaps any age. She...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1992
Orff Carmina Burana
There’s a hint of polite diphthong to “O Fortuna”, much as one might hear an “Ew lovely” when the vicar’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 6/2007
Bridge The Christmas Rose
A children's opera? No, not really: not at all intended for school performances, nor for professional performance to an audience...
Reviewed in issue 10/1985
Heinrich Schlusnus (1888-1952) - I
Schlusnus stands in that royal line of German lyric baritones that runs from Schwarz through him to Janssen and Fischer-Dieskau...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990
Honegger Le Dit des Jeux du Monde; Concerto da camera
Arturo Tamayo | Étienne Plasman | Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra | Nicolas Chalvin
The door of Honegger’s Paris studio bore the message ‘Do not disturb’ in more than 50 languages. After the Second...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 7/2000
R.Strauss: Songs with Orchestra
Heather Harper | London Symphony Orchestra | Richard Hickox
To have caught Heather Harper's singing of Strauss's Four Last Songs at its peak, this recording should have been made...
Reviewed in issue 3/1988
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