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A French Baroque Diva

This is a brilliantly planned and executed, musically illustrated biography of Marie Fel, one of the great 18th-century divas and...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2014

Amorosi pensieri

This is great. Hitherto Cinquecento – that marvellous male-voice sextet in Vienna who have sung a 16th-century Mass almost every...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony

You’d think this same team’s own classic DG recording (12/94) would prove a dauntingly tough act to follow, let alone...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2014

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Don Juan

Andris Nelsons holds the sustained double low C that opens Also sprach Zarathustra with its full measure of menace and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014

STRAUSS Don Juan. Till Eulenspiegel

Hot on the heels of Manfred Honeck’s splendid collection of the same three key tone-poems of Richard Strauss (Reference Recordings,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 07/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 1 & 15

Mark Wigglesworth has an excellent nose for this music. His cycle of the symphonies – split between Wales and the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2014

SCHUMANN Symphonies 1 - 4

Lucky old Schumann. Proving a point I made some time ago – that Schumann is truly a musician’s composer –...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2014

PANUFNIK Symphony No 9. Bassoon Concerto

Marking the centenary of Sir Andrzej Panufnik’s birth, these recordings, originally made by the BBC in 1987, offer a double...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2014

O'CONNELL North. Four Orchestral Pieces. The Symphony

Kevin O’Connell (b1958) is a Northern Irish composer, resident since 1997 in Dublin. The three orchestral works gathered here date...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014

RAVEL Ma Mère L'oye MUSSORGSKY Pictures at and Exhibition

As in Anima Eterna’s previous releases, it is the woodwind and brass that immediately make a distinctive, mellow impact on...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2014

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