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Bizet/Serebrier Carmen Symphony

As he explains in a lively booklet-note, José Serebrier has been dissatisfied for years with the conventional orchestral suites drawn...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2004

Arcadia - Andreas Scholl

The disc’s title signifies not just that the five secular cantatas for solo voice and strings it contains take pastoral...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2004

Recital by Elly Ameling

As I commented when reviewing the LP recently, the glory of these performances is the orchestral playing, and on CD...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1986

(A) Yiddish Winterreise - A Holocaust Survivor's Inner Journey Told Through Yiddish Song

Let me first confess to misgivings about which, if they had proved true, I would have said nothing and simply...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010

Schubert Chamber Works

Re-mastering and the transfer to CD have much improved the sound of these striking performances. As JOC remarked in her...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1984

(The) Full Monteverdi - A Film by John La Bouchardière

The first thing to say about this brilliant film is that it is extremely well sung. It became the fashion,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2008

Mendelssohn Orchestral Works

Pinchas Zukerman's February 1969 recording of the Mendelssohn Concerto was originally issued on the flip-side of an equally engaging Tchaikovsky...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Levy Choral Works

An invaluable new recording of substantial works from an important American voice Marvin David Levy is best known as composer...

Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 8/2004

Furtwängler - Previously unpublished Recordings

The real revelation here is a rehearsal-performance of Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales with the Berlin Philharmonic and dating from...

Reviewed in issue 11/1998

Haydn Symphonies

For this latest in their Haydn series the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra have alighted on three works from the years 1778-84,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1994

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