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ELGAR Where Corals Lie – A Journey through Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)
Christopher Glynn | Julia Sitkovetsky
A major-label Elgar song recital would seem to be overdue. Beyond the well-known Sea Pictures, ‘The Muleteer’s Serenade’, taken directly...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2021
Flagello/Schwantner Vocal Works
James DePreist | Oregon Symphony Orchestra | Portland Symphonic Choir | Raymond Bazemore
An impressive coupling of two substantial works inspired by the life and words of the great preacher and civil rights...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1997
Bizet/Serebrier Carmen Symphony
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra | José Serebrier
As he explains in a lively booklet-note, José Serebrier has been dissatisfied for years with the conventional orchestral suites drawn...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2004
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 4. The Prodigal Son
Marin Alsop | São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Things are finally looking up for Prokofiev the symphonist, with complete cycles in train from Andrew Litton and Marin Alsop....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2013
Pablo Casals plays Cello Concertos
It scarcely seems necessary to write anything further about Casals's famous recordings of the Dvorak and Elgar concertos, which have...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1990
Dvorák Cello Concerto; Silent Woods
Helmerson is a Swedish cellist of the middle generation, born in 1945, who was acclaimed in London some ten years...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1986
Toscha Seidel - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
Anyone who invests in Pearl’s excellent Toscha Seidel CD and who reads Lawrence F. Holdridge’s thoughtful annotation will now be...
Reviewed in issue 11/1999
Nørgård Symphony No 6; Terrains Vagues
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard
Per Nørgård’s symphonies do not form a smoothly evolving or cohesive cycle‚ so it is no surprise that the Sixth...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
PROKOFIEV; STRAVINSKY 'Silver Age' (Daniil Trifonov)
Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
Daniil Trifonov rightly describes Russia’s Silver Age as ‘an increasingly fractured social, political and intellectual environment – a cocktail of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2020
Bassoon Concertos
Benjamin Wallfisch | Karen Geoghegan | Orchestra Of Opera North
Name five internationally famous bassoonists. Archie Camden, Gwydion Brooke and, er, that’s it. Except I think we shall soon be...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2008
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