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Under the Stars

The prospect of a CD bringing together two of today’s major singers is an enticing one. Much of this recording...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 5/2003

Zimmermann (Die) Soldaten

The musical merits of this production of Die Soldaten have been set forth in these pages before in the review...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Byrd For My Ladye Nevell

My Ladye Nevells Booke is a beautifully copied collection of keyboard works from 1591, and if that did not already...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2009

Steal Away: Spirituals and Gospel Songs

Many will remember the powerful impact made by the London Adventist Chorale, directed by Ken Burton, at the Proms last...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1997

Mozart Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2

Volume 2 of the AAM's integral set contains the symphonies written during four sojourns in Salzburg between 1766-72, when Mozart...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1987

Rimsky-Korsakov Symphonies Nos 1 and 2

Rimsky-Korsakov was an inveterate reviser of his own work, and the 'final' versions of both these scores (and of the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

Coates & Grainger Country Gardens

Certainly no complaints about the orchestral playing on this immensely enjoyable Grainger programme. Fennell coaxes some typically beefy, big-hearted sounds...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1993

Lehár Die lustige Witwe

One of the products of Glyndebourne Festival Opera's banishment from their Sussex home last year was a Royal Festival Hall...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/1994

Recréation de musique

French—or Frenchified, in the case of Telemann's Paris Quartet—music of the second quarter of the eighteenth century often (as in...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Villa-Lobos Forest of the Amazon

Forest of the Amazon had – even more than usual with Villa-Lobos – a confusing genesis; and though a recording...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1996

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