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Liszt A Faust Symphony

Chailly restores grace and flow to ''Gretchen'' at a pace almost qualifying as an Andante (Liszt's marking). At a definite...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1993

Rubbra Symphonies 2 & 6

I must say that for me the Second Symphony of 1937 has always been among the most problematic of the...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1996

Blodek In the Well

In the Well has a libretto by Karel Sabina, author of The bartered bride, and has been popular in its...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1996

Hoffman Chamber Works

Hoffmann famously changed his third name from Wilhelm to Amadeus in homage to Mozart, and there is homage of another...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2003

Bach Chamber Works

The Suite, BWV1006a, often regarded by harpists as their 'property' is here transposed from E to E flat major—why? I...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1988

Mystery of Notre Dame

Anyone who has followed the work of the Orlando Consort has been waiting for them to record Notre Dame music...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1998

Haydn/Lehár/Strauss J/Strauss R - Orchestral Pieces

Among all the treasures rediscovered in the BBC archives, this disc of a Barbirolli Promenade Concert of 1969 is among...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2000

Rautavaara Symphony No. 8, 'The Journey'. Harp Concerto

After soaring skywards with his ‘angel’ series it was hardly surprising that the Finnish master Einojuhani Rautavaara should respond to...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Nielsen Orchestral works

Reviewing the LP version, RL found Salonen's Inextinguishable atmospheric, but ultimately unconvincing—''willful'' was the word he used—and I'm inclined to...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 2/1987

Gerhard Hüsch (1901-1984) - II

The light shines here on various facets of Gerhard Husch the opera-singer, some of them probably unknown to many of...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

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