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Alwyn Miss Julie

It is good to have this superb recording of William Alwyn's colourful and confident adaptation of Strindberg's play on CD,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1993

Zemlinsky: Florentinische Tragidie

You could say that Eine Florentinische Tragodie ( ''A Florentine tragedy'') is a truer successor to Salome than anything Richard...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1985

Puccini Madama Butterfly

Perhaps the Editor should impose what the Industrial Relations people call a cooling-off period. Still feeling the impact of that...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Lutoslawski Complete Piano Works; Songs; Dance Preludes; Epitaph

Piano music hardly forms a major part of Lutoslawski’s output, although the wartime Studies find a distinctive voice emerging, while...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/1999

Bruckner A Centenary Tribute

Since Eugen Jochum was always one of the most spontaneous-sounding conductors in the recording studio, there appears never to have...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1997

Bach: Concerti

Almost all the music on this latest record in The English Concert's Bach project falls into a transcription category. The...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1985

(La) Primavera d'Amore - The Troubadours (12th-14th Century)

Some of the great representatives of the troubadour repertory receive forceful, indeed raucous interpretations, with deliberately uncultivated (some might say...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/1999

Strauss, R Complete Orchestral Songs

The first compliment paid to originality, almost by reflex, is to be amazed that the thing has not been done...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2000

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

The source of this performance is a privately made recording on acetates, so the ear of faith and tolerance of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1999

Furtwängler: Symphony No.1

Forget that originality was not Furtwangler's strong point as a composer. Forget the Third Symphony (Walter's Marco Polo recording of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1991

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