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Korngold Chamber Works
Claire McFarlane | Jan Peter Schmolck | Schubert Ensemble of London
It’s bad luck on the Schubert Ensemble of London that their impressive new version of Korngold’s Op. 23 Suite (1930)...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998
Loving Torment
Marc Mauillon | Pierre Hamon | Vivabiancaluna Biffi
Marc Mauillon’s performance of Guillaume de Machaut’s monumental Loyauté que point ne delay, with its two dozen double strophes, is...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 1/2007
Handel: Orchestral Works
(The) English Concert | Trevor Pinnock
The title of this compendium rightly eschews the word 'complete'. Even if 'orchestral' is taken to exclude music from stage...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1988
J.C. Bach Symphonies concertantes, Vol. 1
Angela East | Anna McDonald | Anthony Halstead | Anthony Robson | Graham Cracknell | Hanover Band
It seems an odd type of concerto that can have a pair of violins as soloists in the outer movements...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1997
Liszt Piano Works
Valerie Tryon’s generous ‘Liszt Odyssey’ mirrors both her genial nature and her dedication to the idea of music as a...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2005
Vivaldi Pellegrina's Delight
Gail Hennessy | Katherine Sharman | Nicholas Parle | Peter McCarthy | Rodolfo Richter | Sally Holman
Two items here are only recently verified as being by Vivaldi. The Sonata RV779 dates from his time at the...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/2004
Previn Brief Encounter
Any new operatic adaptation of Brief Encounter can’t help but face barriers, sociological and otherwise. The classic 1945 film about...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 8/2011
A Tribute to Gerald Moore
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Gerald Moore | Victoria de los Ángeles
Apart from the more obvious respects in which this is a unique and moving disc, it is the only one...
Reviewed in issue 1/1988
Rossini (L')Italiana in Algeri
Christianne Stotijn | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Riccardo Frizza
Aix-en-Provence is generally a guarantor of musical excellence and this performance is no exception. Maxim Mironov may not be as...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2008
(The) Complete Hildegard von Bingen, Vol. 1
Oxford Girls' Choir | Sinfonye
After Gothic Voices, with their Gramophone Award-winning CD that launched the cult of Hildegard (Hyperion, 7/82), after the...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 9/1996
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