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Sousa (El) Capitan
This was the most successful of Sousa’s 15 operas but it still needed far more restoration than Joplin’s Treemonisha before...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1999
A Star in the East Medieval Hungarian Christmas Music
This latest disc from Anonymous 4 is a selection of liturgical and paraliturgical Christmas pieces, taken from medieval Hungarian sources....
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1996
Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Opp 46 & 72
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Yoel Levi
An air of businesslike formality settles over these neatly tailored performances, a case more of swinging rolled umbrellas than swirling...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
Copying Beethoven - Music from the Motion Picture
Forget what you know regarding Beethoven’s life, for as director Agnieszka Holland writes in the CD booklet, this film is...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2007
Metamorphosis
String quartets tend to offer all-Bartók or all-Ligeti discs, so this three-stage history of the medium in Hungary over the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2010
Taneyev Chamber Works
Sergey Taneyev composed his three piano chamber works in the years 1902-11, on either side of his 50th birthday, when...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2005
Great European Organs, Vol 54
In 1988 the Dutch organ firm of Flentrop built an 18th-century Dutch-style instrument for Dunblane's 13th-century cathedral. Despite this deliberately...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/2000
Lehár (Das) Land des Lächelns
This latest addition to CPO’s series of Lehár operetta recordings covers more familiar ground than previous offerings. It comes with...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2008
Richter plays Schumann
''Selected for release on CD for their outstanding artistic and historical importance'' is DG's description of these analogue recordings of...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1992
Hartmann, KA Sinfonia tragica
Although submitted for performance in 1946, Hartmann’s Sinfonia tragica (1940, rev 1943) became a victim of his wholesale post-war reconstruction...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2007
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