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Lolita Original Soundtrack

It is a pleasure to report that Ennio Morricone’s score for Adrian Lyne’s 1997 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita...

Reviewed by kmulhall in issue: 9/1998

Weill Violin Concerto

If anything meaningful is revealed by this juxtaposition of Weill and Bernstein, it’s that their aesthetics have very little in...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2007

Beethoven Choral Symphony

Harold C. Schonberg described the Szell approach as ''anti-romantic... literalist... precisionist'' (The Great Conductors; New York: 1967). Szell's relentless striving...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1988

Rautavaara Piano Concerto 3 etc

Thinking back to seminal orchestral works from the turn of the 20th century - Strauss tone-poems, early Scriabin and Mahler...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2000

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Porpora Salve Regina

Engineer and producer Laurence Heym launches her own label, Eloquentia, with the popular pairing of Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Salve...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2006

Sibelius Symphony No 1. Finlandia

Gothenburg has a strong musical tradition: Smetana was there in the 1860s and during his time as Chief Conductor of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1983

Mozart: The Great Sonatas for Piano and Violin

It is always interesting when listening to works recorded over a period of years to try and detect changes that...

Reviewed in issue 11/1985

Verdi Luisa Miller

My vote here goes to the Decca recording under Peter Maag, though that is not to present it with a...

Reviewed in issue 10/1988

Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit

Of the various qualities which make spirituals special, one is the presence of a great excitement, restrained more often than...

Reviewed in issue 8/1992

Gregorian Chant for Hungarian Saints

These three CDs continue the series illustrating the chant repertoire in the Hungarian tradition. The sources are late, mainly fifteenth...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 2/1988

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