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MASSENET Le Mage. Thérèse
The magus of the title is Zarâstra, aka Zoroaster; but there’s little resemblance to the character portrayed by Handel and...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2013
Holst The Planets (four hands, one piano)
Interest here will naturally gravitate toward the two-piano arrangement of The Planets made under Holst’s supervision by two of his...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
German Consort Music, 1660-1710
(The) Parley of Instruments | Peter Holman | Roy Goodman
I very much enjoyed this programme of German baroque music when it was first issued on LP in 1983. I...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1991
Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.16
Schubert's Schiller settings, to which this disc is devoted, are not among the most immediately approachable of the composer's Lieder....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1993
Mozart Symphonies
These three new versions of Mozart's Jupiter are as strongly contrasted with each other as could be, and each is...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989
Bartók Piano Concertos
Budapest Festival Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis
These performances represent a particular phase in the developing style of a great Bartok pianist. And as Bartok piano concerto...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict
Berlioz’s last opera, his “caprice written with the point of a needle”, has fared well over the years on record,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1996
Homage to Gerald Moore
For some 40 years from the mid-1920s Gerald Moore transformed the accompanist from merely being soloists’ accessory into being their...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2003
Schubert Lieder
Dalton Baldwin | Gérard Souzay
Souzay, in addition to his sovereign performances of melodies, sang Schubert with almost as much authority, but in this field...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1993
Mozart Bassoon Concerto; Flute Concerto No 1; Flute & Harp Concerto
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Charlotte Sprenkels | Matthew Wilkie | Sándor Végh | Thierry Fischer
These are thoroughly competent performances in which the soloists in the flute and bassoon concertos are members of the Chamber...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991
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