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Finzi Songs

This is the third encounter with Finzi in recent months. Mark Padmore with Roger Vignoles (Hyperion, 5/05) and Roderick Williams...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2005

Vivaldi Concertos for Bassoon, Vol 1

Adrian Chandler’s latest Vivaldi collection plays on a trio of associations that have little to do with the musical content...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2010

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Rosalyn Tureck

‘Nobody can make a career in Bach,’ Rosalyn Tureck was told by the judges of the Naumberg competition, after she...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 5/1999

Bernstein Vocal Works

If I had to choose one work of Bernstein's for my Desert Island, it would certainly be Songfest, a cycle...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1986

Simpson Chamber Works

Nirvana for composers and performers alike is a state where music unfolds of its own accord, without apparent conscious effort—and...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Menotti Saint of Bleecker Street (The)

Despite a three­month Broadway run on its first appearance in 1954‚ and prestige productions at La Scala‚ the Vienna Volks­oper...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/2002

Massenet Werther

The positive virtues of this new Werther are the approach taken by Jean-Claude Casadesus – well-judged, never overdoing the melodrama...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/2003

The Monk of Montaudon

The impious Monk of Montaudon must have been either a naughty old joker or a gleeful young misanthrope. He pokes...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/1998

Dvorák String Quartets

The Chilingirian's coupling of two more of Dvorak's finest string quartets, in the wake of their disc of Nos. 8...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1990

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

The innocent ear, free from odious comparisons with the past, might welcome this straightforward, careful, well-played traversal of a wonderful...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1999

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