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Una follia di Napoli 1725

As album concepts go, this one requires explanation if the music is to be anything more than a pleasant, lightweight...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012

Dances & Dreams

Rattle, Kissin, the Berlin Phil, New Year’s Eve: a delightful prospect – and viewable, by means of this DVD or...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2012

'Concertos'

Flute concertos gathered together can produce a certain sameness of texture (as in Vivaldi), although not perhaps in the hands...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012

American Serenade

Carmen and Porgy and Bess are both dramatic scores full of rich pickings for any arranger for orchestra with a...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2012

WALLACE Piano Works

The bicentenary of William Vincent Wallace (1812-65) has drawn deserved attention to a neglected British composer. A new biography documents...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 - 3

Like Herbert von Karajan, Valery Gergiev has recorded Tchaikovsky’s last three symphonies on so many occasions that it must be...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2012

SIBELIUS Symphony No 5 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

In the mid-1960s the BBC broadcast three orchestral programmes under the pessimistic title The Symphonic Twilight, which afforded the first...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2012

RAVEL Orchestral Works Vol 1

Gentle languor, as expressed in the Pavane pour une infante défunte and the nocturnal shadows in the first movement of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Dances from Aleko

Early Rachmaninov meets mature Rachmaninov with the two dances and intermezzo from his student opera Aleko of 1892 and the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

Not since the mid-1990s, when Praga paired Serge Baudo in No 5 with an incendiary No 6 from the Leningrad...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2012

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