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Beamish Violin Concerto; Callisto; Symphony No 1
Anthony Marwood | Martyn Brabbins | Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Sharon Bezaly
Sally Beamish has enjoyed a productive association with BIS, which now releases three works involving full orchestra. The Violin Concerto...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2010
Il Fàsolo?
Le Poème Harmonique | Vincent Dumestre
This CD recreates music that lies only just within the shadows of musicological research. For one thing, the identity of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2003
Paul Tortelier
The Tortelier/Beecham version of Don Quixote first appeared on CD in harness with Sir Thomas's account of the suite from...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1995
Tchaikovsky arr C Davis Alice In Wonderland
Carl Davis | City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Three grand Tchaikovsky scores are evidently not enough! A telephone call in 1995 from Derek Deane, then the artistic director...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 8/2009
Rachmaninov The Bells. Symphonic Dances.
A distinguished choral conductor, Valery Polyansky's orchestral ventures have often struck me as more dutiful than inspired. As a Rozhdestvensky...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2000
Dame Felicity Lott - Song Recital
Felicity Lott | Graham Johnson | Malcolm Martineau | Thomas Allen
With the retirement of its great director William Lyne and the recent resignation of his successor Paul Kildea, the Wigmore...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2005
Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys
Anne Sofie von Otter | Bryn Terfel | Paul Daniel | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The baddies always are more fun; in opera and musical theatre they are that much larger than life, too. Small...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2009
Liszt Piano Concertos
Kyrill Kondrashin | London Symphony Orchestra | Sviatoslav Richter
These are old recordings by CD standards, and one is aware of background tape hiss in such passages as the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
McDowall, C Choral Works
Canterbury Chamber Choir | George Vass | Katherine Allen | Orchestra Nova | Rachel Nicholls
Dutton’s fourth anthology devoted to the music of Cecilia McDowall (b1951) launches in delightful fashion with Laudate (2008), an exuberant...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2009
Cavalli Xerse
Written on the libretto that Handel also used 84 years afterwards, Xerse is a later work of Cavalli's than any...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1985
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