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Dvorák Orchestral Works

Jiri Belohlavek is a lucid, sure-footed guide through Dvorak’s mightiest symphonic utterance, and his sympathetic direction combines both warm-hearted naturalness...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1996

Marenzio Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali

Our view of Marenzio’s music is curiously distorted by its relationship to the English madrigal. Thomas Morley‚ the composer‚ writer...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Mozart Così fan tutte

This Cosi is the second of the trio of da Ponte operas whose recording was initiated in 1984 to celebrate...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1987

Weir (The) Welcome Arrival of Rain

Recordings of Judith Weir’s music have tended to focus either on her operas or her chamber music, so this disc...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2008

D'Indy Orchestral Works, Vol 1

Three of d'Indy's most colourful works show him not only as an impressionist in a Debussian mould but also influenced...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2008

Sacred Songs and Arias

Collections of 'great singers' in music such as this normally attract me just about as much as nineteenth-century stained-glass, which...

Reviewed in issue 1/1993

Schumann Lieder

Mitsuko Shirai's naturally reflective mezzo-soprano warms to her latest Schumann recital, meticulously planned, and dominated by songs from the Myrthen...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1993

Indy Orchestral Works

A disc which proves (perhaps unintentionally) how unfair it is that d'Indy should be known primarily for his Symphonie sur...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1993

Haydn Symphonies

Like Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Roger Norrington brings a questing, challenging, sometimes subversive spirit to all the music he performs. His first...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1994

R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier

You may want this version for Frederica von Stade's beautifully sung, engaging, fully characterized Octavian or for Carreras's brief incursion...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1994

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