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Cui (A) Feast in Time of Plague
Pushkin’s ‘Little Tragedies’ have been a fruitful source for little operas, embodying as they do what Philip Taylor calls in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2004
The Beggar's Opera 1968 London Cast
Primarily a memento of Toby Robertson's production of 1968, this has attractions that are certainly not limited to those who...
Reviewed in issue 10/1994
Suk Asrael
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek
''Like an eye gazing fixedly into space''—a description of the sustained D flat on flutes and muted trumpet that runs...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1992
Elgar/Longstaff Great Expectations
John Pryce-Jones | Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra
One needn’t necessarily have seen Stefano Giannetti’s ballet to appreciate how successfully he and his arranger John Longstaff have been...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 7/2000
Schreker Irrelohe
It is good to see the upsurge of interest in Schreker's operas. Ten years ago his representation in the catalogue...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1995
In Nomine: English Consort Works
Many thanks to Fretwork—the English consort to watch—for having dignified the native In Nomine with a CD. For the uninitiated,...
Reviewed in issue 3/1988
Rossini Demetrio e Polibio
If Rossini operas were numbered in the same way as Bruckner symphonies, Demetrio e Polibio would rank as his Opera...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1997
Duke Complete Piano Solo 1939-40
Vladimir Dukelsky left Russia shortly after the 1917 revolution and his career as a serious composer was based in New...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/2005
Frank Martin Piano & Chamber Works
A thrusting, purposeful and vibrantly communicative triptych from this fine husband-and-wife duo. Walton's underrated Violin Sonata (written for Menuhin in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2000
Delalande Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy
(La) Simphonie du Marais | Hugo Reyne
I first got to know and love a selection of Delalande's Sinfonies pour les soupers du Roi through recordings issued...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1991
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