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Chabrier L'Etoile
What comes as a surprise about this sparkling opera-bouffe is not that all leading French composers have hailed it as...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1988
Ravel Daphnis & Chloë; Bartok Dance Suite
Grzegorz Nowak | London Symphony Orchestra
If this coupling of Bartok and Ravel seems an odd one, the explanation is that both works might be counted...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1985
Haydn London Symphonies
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Thomas Beecham
In a celebrated LP rehearsal disc (nla), Beecham bemoaned to the percussionists in Symphony No. 100, his ''military gentlemen'', the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1992
Dvorák Violin Concerto. Suk Fantasy
Gabriela Demeterová | Libor Pesek | Prague Symphony Orchestra
Refreshingly clean-cut, unusually mobile readings of both works from Gabriela Demeterova, enthusiastically partnered by Libor Pesek and his responsive Prague...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999
Hortus Deliciarum - 12th Century Gregorian Chant
Discantus have produced their own twelfth-century ‘Paradise Garden’, inspired by Hildegard and Herrad. It illuminates the work of these two...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/1998
Sibelius; Smetana String Quartets
Here is a coupling that works on several levels. Programmatically, Sibelius’s “intimate voices” link up with the autobiographical driving force...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2011
McLeod Piano Works
John McLeod takes an ingenious and compelling approach to a cycle of preludes related by key. The sense of small...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/1998
Mozart: Piano Works
Though printed in four languages, the accompanying booklet includes no information about the music. Instead, its slender space goes to...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1989
Stradella Cantatas
The music of Alessandro Stradella makes infrequent appearances on disc, and performances have tended to be uneven. All the more...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1999
Falla El amor brujo; Homenajes
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra | Edmon Colomer | Esperanza Fernández
As is well known by now, and is explained here by the distinguished Spanish musicologist Enrique Franco, Falla’s 1925 El...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1996
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