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Fibich: Orchestral works

This is a record worth seeking out—though not if you insist on the finest standards of orchestral playing and recording—and...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/1985

Kodály Choral Works

There is something about the forthright, honest-to-goodness singing of the Danish National Radio Choir and soloists that especially suits Kodaly's...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2000

Bartók Miraculous Mandarin. Stravinsky Petrushka

Balletic victims in tandem, both scored with the utmost colour, are manipulated here as if by the scruff of the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

The Virtuoso Cello

Felix Schmidt is a young cellist whose playing I have regularly enjoyed in concert and recital. This collection of cello...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989

Simply Sarah

Years ago, any 15-year-old who performed with Sarah Chang’s degree of technical facility would have been hailed a genius. Nowadays,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Music of Spain

There is some relatively rare repertoire here, but the selection is bitty, and it was not very good planning to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1991

Czech Song Recital

The name of Magdalena Kozena, this dazzling young Czech mezzo, came to my attention when she failed – owing to...

Reviewed by hcanning in issue: 8/2000

Marian Anderson Oratorios and Spirituals

The sacred and the spiritual: they should mean much the same, but here the connotations are somewhat different. Marian Anderson...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Telemann Der Tod Jesu

The passion oratorio Der Tod Jesu, to words by Klopstock’s friend Karl Wilhelm Ramler, is acknowledged as one of the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2001

Messiaen Livre du Saint Sacrement

Volume 3 of Michael Bonaventure’s complete Messiaen returns to St Giles’s Cathedral in Edinburgh and its stunning Rieger organ, which...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 9/2008

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