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ELGAR The Starlight Express

It was Violet Pearn (1890-1947) who decided to stage Algernon Blackwood’s (1869-1951) children’s book A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913), and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012

ELGAR The Apostles

Sir Mark Elder and his Hallé forces continue to set stellar standards in large-scale Elgar and this new recording of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012

DVOŘÁK Cypresses Song Cycle. String Quartets

Even the best-informed Dvořák followers may not realise that his 1887 Cypresses, the collection of string quartet miniatures that often...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012

DOVE There Was a Child

With its title quoting Walt Whitman, Jonathan Dove’s 50-minute cantata commemorates the life of a boy who was tragically drowned...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2012

CHARPENTIER Leçons de Ténèbres

Alpha’s house-style of booklets containing erudite essays on both the music and the fine art featured on the front cover...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2012

The Complete Havergal Brian Songbook Volume 1

Havergal Brian’s many songs and part-songs as well as the Gothic Symphony confirm what an accomplished word-setter he was. The...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012

BRAHMS Complete Songs Volume 4

In his vocal autumn, Robert Holl fields a bass-baritone of slightly grizzled nobility, with impressive sonorous depth. If high notes...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012

BERLIOZ Grande Messe des Morts

This disc is taken from the original master tapes of what is now West German Radio. If ever there was...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012

The Silver Violin

This new release from Nicola Benedetti offers a programme inspired by film music with Korngold’s Violin Concerto as the centrepiece,...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2012

Perspectives

Norway’s only full-time professional chamber orchestra is heard to advantage on this disc largely devoted to 20th-century classics for strings....

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012

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