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Ravel Enfant et les Sortilèges; Ma mère l'oye

L’heure espagnole doesn’t enjoy the popularity that has lighted on Ravel’s second opera, the much more difficult-to-perform L’enfant et les...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/1999

Ben Johnson - The Masque of Oberon

That the ‘house musicians’ to the Globe Theatre should be such an eminent band of specialists in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1997

Moeran Complete Piano Works

Specialist collectors will be aware of two earlier Lyrita collections containing some of these pieces from Eric Parkin (10/72) and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2003

Avison (12) Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti

Having in their previous releases for Divine Art and Naxos introduced us to “forgotten” concertos by their composer namesake, the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2009

Maw Dance Scenes

In 1962, the 27-year-old Nicholas Maw staged a breathtaking musical coup at the Proms with his cantata Scenes and Arias...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1996

Clara Schumann Works for Piano

This is an invaluable issue for all Schumann lovers, offering not only all the solo piano works Clara was always...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1993

Creston Orchestral Works

In reviewing the all-Creston CD played by the Cracow Philharmonic under David Amos (4/92) I placed the composer somewhere between...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/1992

Brumel Missa 'Et ecce terrae motus'

Until somebody finds Ockeghem’s 36-voice motet (which almost certainly did exist) the so-called ‘Earthquake Mass’ here must count as the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/2003

Yvonne Printemps

If we should need a reminder of how and why the name of Yvonne Printemps rose above any other from...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1989

Wagner Overtures and Preludes

As a further example of just how far the Met Orchestra has come under Levine's 20-year guidance, this all-Wagner showcase...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1993

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