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Stravinsky Symphonies

I had better admit that evaluating any new recording of these masterpieces always prompts the same unanswerable question: to what...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1994

Berlioz La Damnation de Faust

Keith Lewis and Anne Sofie von Otter have sung together in La damnation before, in Solti’s Chicago version (available on...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1998

Bax Piano Works, Vol. 4

Here’s a rather belated (but still, of course, exceedingly welcome) addition to Eric Parkin’s three previous Bax anthologies for Chandos...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1998

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Covent Garden

Covent Garden’s 1988 staging of Entfuhrung by Elijah Moshinsky, conducted by Solti, was well received and this video recording of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1998

Blitzstein Regina

Heavily influenced by Gershwin, Thomson and Puccini, with a dash here and there of Copland, Hindemith and Weill, Marc Blitzstein's...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/1993

Rihm Music for Strings

Wolfgang Rihm is perhaps not as well known in Anglo-Saxon countries as in his native Germany, where he has been...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2000

Tavener Choral Works

Lavish soundscapes, like The Protecting Veil, may have caught the public imagination, but for me Tavener's real genius is encapsulated...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1994

Antonietta Stella sings Verdi & Puccini Operatic Arias

Stella was not an ‘in’ singer. When she recorded the Traviata that might have been Callas’s the set was deemed...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Hommage à Jane Bathori - Upshaw

Jane Bathori, whose career and support for composers is celebrated by Dawn Upshaw and Jerome Ducros in their recital, was...

Reviewed in issue 7/2000

Barber; Poulenc; Saint-Saëns Wks for Org & Orch

Eschenbach's Poulenc is heavily romanticised, squeezing every last drop of pathos from the score and finding many moments of ravishing...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/2007

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