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Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice
Gluck’s Orfeo has appeared in many guises. But had you been at the court theatre in Vienna at the première...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2002
GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice (Plewniak)
Elsa Dreisig | Fatma Said | Il Giardino d’Amore | Jakub Józef Orliński | Stefan Plewniak
It is clear from his introductory note in the booklet that the moving spirit behind this recording is Jakub Józef...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2024
Railroad Rhythms
Jiri Stárek | Kaiserslautern Radio Orchestra
In 1993 Marco Polo issued a pair of CDs of “Lokomotiv-Musik”. They concentrated on Viennese-style dance music, whereas this new...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2006
Grieg Orchestral works
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
Apart from the ever-popular Piano Concerto there seems little room in today's concert programmes for Grieg's gently nostalgic, beautifully crafted...
Reviewed in issue 1/1987
Messiaen 20 Regards sur l'enfant Jésus
Melisande Chauveau is a pianist of commanding virtuosity and imposing gesture. When called upon to execute ''a vehement dance, the...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1994
Eventail Masters of the Spanish Guitar
The musical focus is on the composers who came to Paris from various other countries in the first half of...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1999
Elgar Symphony No 3
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra | Tadaaki Otaka
Tadaaki Otaka is a devoted and thoughtful Elgarian, as anyone who knows his accomplished reading of the First Symphony with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2008
Elgar Marches
James Judd | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
James Judd – for long a dedicated Elgarian – and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra have already established their Elgar...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2005
Prokofiev/Khachaturian/Kókai
One afternoon recently, I stood outside the Central Department Store in Sofia listening to two old men playing age-old Bulgarian...
Reviewed in issue 6/1993
STRAUSS Symphonia Domestica, Metamorphosen
François-Xavier Roth | South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg
François-Xavier Roth’s Strauss series with his SWR orchestra has been garnering glowing reviews in these pages. This new instalment emphatically...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017
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