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Glazunov Symphony No. 6; The Forest
Alexander Anissimov | Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Glazunov’s Sixth Symphony (1896) is one of his most successful. It opens sombrely with a slow, very Slavic melody, out...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2000
Janácek Jenufa
Hot on the heels of Sir Charles Mackerras’s set of Janácek’s orchestral music (5/04) – issued with the threat that...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2004
Bliss - Sacred Choral Music
The longest works here, The Shield of Faith and The World is charged with the grandeur of God, come respectively...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1999
Silvestrov Stufen (song cycle)
Valentin Silvestrov is not just the Ukraine’s most prominent composer but also a major voice in the music of our...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2003
Weber Euryanthe
There’s so little Weber about on DVD, still less that’s worthwhile, that any Euryanthe at all is a welcome surprise,...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2005
Baroque Transcriptions for Tumpet and Organ
Amanda Keesmaat | Luc Beauséjour | Paul Merkelo
Paul Merkelo is principal trumpet of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and a player of unusual lyrical gifts. This randomly-presented programme...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2004
Brian Symphony No 2; Festival Fanfare
Moscow Symphony Orchestra | Tony Rowe
The scherzo of Havergal Brian’s Second Symphony is a battle-scene of such brilliant and fantastic invention that if Berlioz himself...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1998
Mozart: Vocal & Orchestral Works
Of Mozart's last two complete Mass settings both written in Salzburg during his final period in court service there, 1779–80,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1989
Mozart Piano Concertos
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood | Robert Levin
There are several unusual features about this disc. First, the fortepiano employed is one (unsigned) that belonged to Mozart himself....
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
Rêveries & Revels
Sir Christopher Wren’s church of St Bride’s, with its famous ‘wedding cake’ steeple, is a familiar sight to Londoners but...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 3/2006
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