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Janácek The Excursions of Mr Broucek.
The issue of Frantisek Jilek's 1982 version of Mr Broucek on CD is a great pleasure. For many years the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1995
Addinsell British Light Music
BBC Concert Orchestra | Kenneth Alwyn | Philip Martin | Roderick Elms
Universally known for the Warsaw Concerto from the wartime film Dangerous Moonlight, Richard Addinsell composed a good deal else for...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1995
Addinsell Film Soundtracks
I don’t pretend to have heard more than a few of the reputed 100-plus recordings of the Warsaw Concerto; but...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2003
Schmidt in A Star Fell From Heaven
(Anonymous) Orchestra | Abel Gance | André Pernet | Georges Thill | Grace Moore
From a film critic’s point of view, A Star Fell from Heaven (‘Ein Stern fallt vom Himmel’ in the original...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2000
A Certain Slant of Light
Lawrence Foster | Lisa Delan | Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra
As this collection and its accompanying notes remind us, the music came first and the poetry followed for Emily Dickinson....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2018
Blow An Ode on the Death of Mr Purcell
Canzona (La) | Gérard Lesne | Steve Dugardin
The teacher who has even one pupil who becomes even more distinguished than himself is fortunate; in Purcell, Blow had...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/2000
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - American Songs
The repertory for basses in solo song recitals is limited – one recalls, for instance, Boris Christoff’s magnificent but gloom-laden...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1997
Abel Mr Abel's Fine Airs
Carl Friedrich Abel is usually thought of as a genial symphonist much in the mould of his London concert-promoting business...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2008
Out of the Shadows: Rediscovered American Art songs
Lisa Delan has put together an enjoyable and valuable programme here. These are songs one hears rarely, if at all;...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
Janácek (The) Eternal Gospel; (The) Excursions of Mr Broucek Suite
Fans of the Glagolitic Mass should definitely make a beeline for Janácek’s 1913 cantata The Eternal Gospel. Radiating a comparable...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2005
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