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Joyce DiDonato - Diva, Divo
Joyce DiDonato | Kazushi Ono | Lyon National Opera Chorus | Lyon National Opera Orchestra
The singer’s own booklet-note celebrates this recital as “the world of the mezzo-soprano, who has always been called upon to...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 4/2011
(A) Song More Silent - New Works for Remembrance
Andrew Cleary | London Mozart Players | Nicolae Moldoveanu | Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir
In recent years Portsmouth Grammar School has commissioned a series of works to mark the Remembrance observances in November each...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2009
Bach St John Passion
Taken from a live performance in Lugano in 1998, this vital reading is impressively conceived: even though there are audience...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1999
Brahms/Gal Clarinet Sonatas
The special interest here is the Austrian-born Hans Gal's Clarinet Sonata written at 74, some 24 years before his death...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1993
Woolrich Lending Wings
Brodsky Quartet | Composers' Ensemble | Diego Masson | Jane Atkins | Mary Wiegold
This excellently recorded disc is a good introduction to the music of an English composer who is at last beginning...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1996
Dvorák Orchestral Works
Lorin Maazel | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
This is a convincingly high-powered and superbly-played reading of Dvorak's most popular symphony, brilliantly recorded in digital sound. Since Maazel...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1983
New York Polyphony - Tudor City
I have never been to the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in New York, so I can’t vouch...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2010
Williamson Symphonies Nos 1 and 5
Iceland Symphony Orchestra | Rumon Gamba
The first volume in Chandos's exceedingly welcome series devoted to Malcolm Williamson's orchestral music was one of my most played...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2007
Brahms Piano Works
Pascal Roge, 42 this year, has recorded the Handel Variations before for Decca (1/79—nla). JOC found that earlier performance slightly...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1993
Music Transfigured - Remembering Ferenc Fricsay
All three of these biopics are recommendable as introductions to those who know little or nothing about their subjects. With...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2009
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