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Edith Oldrup - Lyrical Soprano of the Danish Royal Opera (1934-49)
The first seven tracks and several later ones will provide a good opportunity for those who are fond of saying...
Reviewed in issue 5/1999
Grieg Piano Works
Daniel Levy | Israela Margalit
If the Koch International CD featured better sound it would be a real winner. Margalit, formerly married to Lorin Maazel,...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1993
Sibelius; Sinding Violin Concertos
Bjarte Engeset | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
The first of Christian Sinding’s three violin concertos makes a fascinating and attractive coupling for the Sibelius Concerto. CPO has...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2004
Penderecki: Orchestral and Vocal Works
It strikes me as rather odd when there are so many new pieces of music that desperately need a recording,...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 9/1990
Handel Water Music
Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Neville Marriner
Ten years separate this from the ASMF/Marriner's second bite at Handel's liquid cherry, a Philips recording of 1979. The first...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1990
Kabalevsky Volume 5
Roughly contemporary with Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony and Britten's War Requiem, Kabalevsky's Requiem is likewise a memorial to the victims of...
Reviewed in issue 1/1993
Schubert Song Cycles
Helmut Deutsch | Hermann Prey | Leonard Hokanson
Unexpectedly, I found the first disc (Die schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang) movingly special, something to come back to, and the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2010
Mercadante Elena da Feltre
Elena da Feltre was first heard on Boxing Day 1838, 11 months before the premiere of Verdi’s first opera Oberto....
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1999
Braga Santos Symphonies Nos 3 & 6
There has not been much of a symphonic tradition in Portugal, but this century has thrown up two symphonists of...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1999
Bruckner Symphonies Nos 3-5, 7-9; Mahler Symphonies Nos 1, 4-6
Christoph von Dohnányi | Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Sound is what it says on the box, but this is a strange way to celebrate the Dohnanyi...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2000
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