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Review of Pfitzner Complete Lieder, Vol 4

Pfitzner Complete Lieder, Vol 4

These are the songs of Pfitzner's high maturity (his great opera Palestrina was written between Op 24 and Op 26)...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2000

Review of Stenhammar Orchestral & Vocal Works

Stenhammar Orchestral & Vocal Works

Nowadays there is not much doubt of Stenhammar's standing as the finest Swedish composer after Berwald, though I have to...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1994

Review of Paray Joan of Arc Mass; Symphony No 1

Paray Joan of Arc Mass; Symphony No 1

Conductors’ musical compositions usually reflect, more or less, the particular bias of their creators’ standard-repertory interpretations: Furtwangler’s unfold in huge,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Review of Lyapunov Orchestral Works

Lyapunov Orchestral Works

If Sergei Lyapunov is remembered at all nowadays, it is probably for his Transcendental Studies, consciously modelled on those of...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Review of Bach Ascension Cantatas

Bach Ascension Cantatas

These four Ascension Day cantatas span 10 years of Bach’s life in Leipzig, from No 37, first performed in May...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2000

Review of André Watts at Carnegie Hall

André Watts at Carnegie Hall

I was far from impressed with Andre Watts's recent studio recordings of Beethoven sonatas (EMI (D CDC7 49264-2, 9/88) but...

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

Review of Haydn: String Quartets

Haydn: String Quartets

There is no such thing as a perfect world. Take these three versions of the Lark Quartet. All have attributes...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1989

Review of Peacock Pie

Peacock Pie

Armstrong Gibbs’s Peacock Pie gives this most attractive collection its title‚ drawn‚ like the composer’s inspiration‚ from Walter de la...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Review of Handel Giulio Cesare

Handel Giulio Cesare

David McVicar’s 2005 staging, being revived this summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2006

Review of Vox Sonora

Vox Sonora

It’s always a joy when a disc stops you in your tracks as though you were hearing the music for...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998


 

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