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Bretón (La) Verbena de la Paloma
Madrid Comunidad Orchestra | Miguel Roa
La verbena de la paloma is one of the masterpieces of the shorter género chico zarzuela. First performed in Madrid...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 11/2008
Zimmer Pirates of the Carribean - At world's End
(Anonymous) Orchestra | Nick Glennie-Smith
The soundtrack of At World’s End is the most enjoyable score of this three-part franchise while critical opinion of the...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 9/2007
Machaut Motets
This is a landmark recording and a courageous venture. It is probably the first devoted to Machaut’s motets, containing no...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/2004
Bartók String Quartets
The more one studies these works, the more miraculous they seem; not just as structures and designs, but as personal...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
Ravel Vocal Works
This fine new Decca recording of Ravel's intoxicating opera introduces some new and very promising singers. The sound quality is...
Reviewed in issue 10/1995
Maxwell Davies Orchestral Works
Worldes Blis (1969) is a Song of the Earth that ends, after 40 minutes of sustained and sombre melodic evolution,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1994
Handel Germanico
Florentine harpsichordist Ottaviano Tenerani and Sony’s imprint Deutsche Harmonia Mundi have become over-excitable about Germanico – a peculiar early-18th-century manuscript...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2011
Beethoven Orchestral Works
London Classical Players | Roger Norrington
It is probably not by chance that this new period instrument performance of the Eroica Symphony is prefaced by the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1989
Kramár Wind Octets
These are enchantingly witty performances of some enchantingly witty music. Krommer, or Kramar, is a very minor figure, and it...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1992
Lehár conducts Lehár
Franz Lehár | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
On June 5th, 1947 the 77-year-old Franz Lehar conducted a Radio Beromunster concert of his music, with Richard Tauber as...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 13/1998
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