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Review of Pergolesi Sacred Choral Works/Violin Concerto

Pergolesi Sacred Choral Works/Violin Concerto

Alain Zaepffel | Daniel Cuiller | Paul Colleaux | Stradivaria Ensemble | Véronique Dietschy

Adda

My review of Abbado's 1985 recording on DG made much of its warmth. Bathed in Italian sunshine, it is a...

Reviewed in issue 8/1987

Review of Grieg Peer Gynt

Grieg Peer Gynt

Asbjørn Hansli | Kåre Bjørkøy | London Symphony Orchestra | Oslo Philharmonic Chorus | Per Dreier | Toril Carlsen | Vessa Hanssen

Souvenir Records

Space does not permit a detailed account of the genesis of this 'complete' music for Peer Gynt. Suffice to say...

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

Review of R. Strauss Salome

R. Strauss Salome

Astrid Varnay | Bernd Weikl | Hanna Schwarz | Hans Beirer | Karl Böhm | Teresa Stratas | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wieslaw Ochman

DG

Perhaps enough has already been said about the occasionally disturbing mis-match between sound and vision that can occur when an...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1989

Review of Serebrier Symphony No 3

Serebrier Symphony No 3

Carole Farley | José Serebrier | Laurent le Chennadec | Renaud Gruss | Sandrine Tilly | Sergio Piterbaerg | Toulouse National Chamber Orchestra | Xinum Choir | Yi Yao

Naxos

Serebrier is not only one of those prominent conductors who takes the opportunity to launch his own music, however tempting...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2003

Review of Francaix Chamber Works

Francaix Chamber Works

Alison Nicholls | Ashan Pillai | Kanako Ito | Lorna McGhee | Martin Storey | Philippe Honoré | Robert Plane

ASV

Jean Francaix had his first opus published in Paris in 1921, when he was nine. His music has remained an...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2000

Review of Berlioz: Choral Works

Berlioz: Choral Works

Bernard Tetu | Bruce Brewer | Instrumental Ensemble | Jean-Philippe Courtis | Loïc Mallié | Lyon National Choir | Noël Lee

Harmonia Mundi

There is a fascinating, delightful and entertaining record to be made of some of Berlioz's smaller pieces for chorus. This...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1989

Review of Maria Jeritza (1887-1982)

Maria Jeritza (1887-1982)

(Anonymous) Orchestra | Maria Jeritza

Lebendige Vergangenheit

It is a pity Jeritza did not sing in the age of video opera. As all accounts and photographs testify,...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Review of Liszt Piano Works, Vol.28

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.28

Leslie Howard

Hyperion

''Liszt's Marches have not so much had an unfair press as no press at all.'' So Howard affirms in his...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1995

Review of (The) Full Monteverdi - A Film by John La Bouchardière

(The) Full Monteverdi - A Film by John La Bouchardière

(I) Fagiolini | Robert Hollingworth

Naxos

The first thing to say about this brilliant film is that it is extremely well sung. It became the fashion,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2008

Review of Haydn Symphonies

Haydn Symphonies

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Yellow Label

For this latest in their Haydn series the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra have alighted on three works from the years 1778-84,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1994

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