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Chabrier L'Etoile

What comes as a surprise about this sparkling opera-bouffe is not that all leading French composers have hailed it as...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1988

Julyan (The) Prestige

My appetite to hear this soundtrack was whetted by the story of two rival professional magicians set in 19th-century London...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 2/2007

Great Cathedral Anthems, Vol. 2

The selection is wide-ranging (though having nothing Elizabethan, Jacobean or mid-Victorian), and the inclusion of the word 'cathedral' in the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Ravel Daphnis & Chloë; Bartok Dance Suite

If this coupling of Bartok and Ravel seems an odd one, the explanation is that both works might be counted...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1985

Universi Populi

This most recent recording by the French female ensemble Discantus is a collection of sacred pieces stemming almost entirely from...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 1/2007

Haydn London Symphonies

In a celebrated LP rehearsal disc (nla), Beecham bemoaned to the percussionists in Symphony No. 100, his ''military gentlemen'', the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1992

Scodanibbio My new address

A bassist of exploratory zeal, Stefano Scodanibbio is little recognized as a composer. As is made plain in his booklet...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2004

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1; Symphony No 4

It seems like – indeed it is – an eternity ago that Mariss Jansons first made such an impression with...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2008

Dvorák Violin Concerto. Suk Fantasy

Refreshingly clean-cut, unusually mobile readings of both works from Gabriela Demeterova, enthusiastically partnered by Libor Pesek and his responsive Prague...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999

Mayr, G Ginevra di Scozia

A neat but somewhat specious claim to historical importance prefaces this revival. Mayr’s Ginevra was, as its editor Marco Beghelli...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2003

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