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Elgar Symphony No 3
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra | Tadaaki Otaka
Tadaaki Otaka is a devoted and thoughtful Elgarian, as anyone who knows his accomplished reading of the First Symphony with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2008
Eötvös; Gruber; Turnage Orchestral Works with Trumpet
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Håkan Hardenberger | Peter Eötvös
Håkan Hardenberger has always championed contemporary composers and this new disc underlines the breadth of his sympathies. Of the works...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2006
Lehár Overtures and Waltzes
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | Michail Jurowski
CPO has been doing great things in widening the availability of items from Franz Lehár’s vast and joyous output. There’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2004
Smetana Orchestral Works, Volume 1
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda
This is a superb disc. There have been distinguished collections of Smetana’s symphonic poems (notably a vintage Kubelík disc) but...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2007
Handel Arias
(Les) Arts Florissants Orchestra | Danielle de Niese | William Christie
Danielle de Niese can be seen as Hébé on the DVD of Rameau’s Les Indes galantes (Opus Arte, 4/06); but...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 6/2008
Bruckner Sacred Choral Works
The Corydon Singers have already recorded some of Bruckner's rarer choral works (A66062, 3/83) and now they give us a...
Reviewed in issue 2/1986
Wallace Orchestral Works, Volume 2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Martyn Brabbins
In November 1996, MS understandably waxed lyrical about a Hyperion release devoted to four fine symphonic poems by William Wallace...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1998
Chopin Works for Cello and Piano
Here are Chopin’s complete works for cello and piano complemented by an intriguing garland of encores. Performed with a relish...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1996
Xenakis Oresteia
One idea that fuelled Gluck's operatic reforms was the breaking down of conventions to get at dramatic truth. An important...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
Maconchy Orchestral Music
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Clélia Iruzun | Odaline de la Martinez
The 23-year-old Elizabeth Maconchy created quite a splash with The Land, her four-movement suite for large orchestra which enjoyed a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2012
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