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Messiaen Chamber Works
Only in 2007 was Messiaen’s early Fantaisie for violin and piano at long last published. The composer’s suppression of this...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2008
Wagner Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold is possibly the most telling music drama, as distinct from opera, ever composed. Wagner's ability to provide the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1989
Widor Chamber Music with piano
Ilona Prunyi | New Budapest Quartet
Yes, Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) did find some time in his long life to write other music besides the celebrated Toccata...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989
Bowen; Walton Viola Concertos
Helen Callus | Marc Taddei | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Helen Callus, British-born but based in America, plays with sumptuous tone matched by flawless intonation to give the most beautiful...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2006
Mathias Lux Aeterna
This is a transfer to CD of a recording issued nearly five years ago, just after Lux aeterna had had...
Reviewed in issue 11/1989
Strauss, R Elektra (DVD)
I enjoyed, if that is the right word for Elektra’s gruesome drama, this performance of Strauss’s opera (taken from the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2000
Peter Anders - Arias and Songs
At Beecham’s famous 1951 Covent Garden Meistersinger, Anders was the unforgettable Walther: at least after all these years I haven’t...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/2003
Bach/Telemann Works for Recorded & Strings
Berlin Baroque Soloists | Michala Petri | Rainer Kussmaul | Raphael Alpermann
This is not a selection you will encounter on one CD all that often, simply because it places a pair...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1999
Marc-André Hamelin - It's all about the music
Lahti Symphony Orchestra | Marc-André Hamelin | Osmo Vänskä | Ronald Stevenson
There are two ways of looking at this DVD – if you take my meaning. The first is as a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2007
Holst Orchestral Works
David Theodore | English Chamber Orchestra | Jonathan Snowden | Yehudi Menuhin
An attractive Holst compendium, accorded first-rate sound. Both the St Paul's and Brook Green suites come off especially well here,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994
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