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Stephan (Die) Ersten Menschen

Naïve provides an early chance to renew acquaintance with the Biblical opera that young Rudi Stephan completed and almost got...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2007

Rodrigo Piano Works

Variety and vitality go hand in hand in Rodrigo’s evocative music for solo piano. Refusing Albenizian grandiosity, it owes much...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 7/1998

Bainton; Clifford String Quartets

Dutton continues its exploration of neglected British fare with two more enterprising discs, both housing performances and recordings that do...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2006

Malipiero Capricci di Callot (I)

At last! Gian Francesco Malipiero was one of the most original and provocative operatic composers of the 20th century‚ but...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Schumann Piano Trio 3 etc

It’s scarcely surprising that a group with the name of Florestan should have an extra-special feeling for the composer who...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: /2000

Barber Vanessa

Samuel Barber’s first opera, Vanessa, enjoyed a considerable success at its Metropolitan Opera première in 1958, winning a Pulitzer Prize....

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/2003

Bruno Walter conducts Mahler

The prize here is surely Skrowaczewski’s Bartokian Triple Concerto, a quick-witted, darkly shaded tour de force that supplements the Verdehr’s...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Mozart: Wind Concertos

Anyone who purchased the earlier Orpheus Chamber Orchestra record of Mozart wind concertos (the Clarinet Concerto and Horn Concertos Nos....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1989

Sculthorpe String Quartets, Vol 2

A rewarding anthology spanning some four decades and more, from the Tenth and Eleventh Quartets of 1983 and 1990 (both...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2000

Campra; Couperin Salva Regina (Petits Motets)

The name of André Campra may be familiar to fans of the French Baroque, and that of François Couperin known...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2005

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