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Bellini La Sonnambula

Just as today composers occasionally turn to the cinema for subjects on which to base operas, in the 1820s and...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Brahms (Ein) deutsches Requiem

Not only the violin-free opening movement but many points thereafter may remind us both of Giulini’s pedigree as a viola-player,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 2/2009

Schulhoff String Quartets

Unlike so many discs devoted to music by victims of the Holocaust, Capriccio's cover artwork includes a thoroughly 1990s publicity...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Barbirolli conducts Elgar and Vaughan Williams

A feast of heartfelt music-making. Sir John Barbirolli’s world premiere recording of the Sinfonia antartica dates from June 1953, some...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998

Gubaidulina (The) Deceitful Face of Hope and of Despair

‘Every interval,’ Gubaidulina explains, ‘creates a summation tone and a difference tone: an interval in the lowest register creates a...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2006

Bellini (La) Sonnambula

Amina (the somnambulant of the title) is not the only sleepy-head round here. It’s a wonder, for a start, how...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2006

Forqueray Pièces de viole

It used to be thought a remarkable example of filial devotion, not to speak of Christian forgiveness, that Jean-Baptiste Forqueray...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1996

MacMillan Choral Works

Seven Last Words was commissioned by the BBC in 1993 for Holy Week 1994, when it was broadcast in seven...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 9/2005

Play it Again - Cello Encores

It is not Sam who is being addressed, nor does Baillie play As time goes by; but what he does...

Reviewed in issue 5/1989

Brahms String Quartets

Viola to the fore in the third movement, Agitato, of Op 67; and Geraldine Walther, firm-toned and assertive, rises to...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2008

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