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Goldenthal Othello

Like many others, I was hugely impressed by Elliot Goldenthal’s score for Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy earlier this year,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998

Schütz Psalmen Davids

This is a fine collection of Schutz’s psalm settings, but best not listened to at one sitting, since the variety...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1

“A legend in its time” and an occasion still discussed and mulled over, “almost as if it happened yesterday”, trumpets...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1998

Beach Piano concerto; Symphony No 2

Composed in 1898-99, Amy Beach’s ambitious, singularly impressive Piano Concerto is at long last coming in from the cold. An...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2003

Callas Rehearsal in Dallas 1957

Taking the six in order, the first is the first to strike off the list. Its principal attraction, one imagines,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002

Puccini Tosca

Whatever reservations one may have about Gigli in Verdi, he is surely the non pareil among tenors in his Puccini...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

Shostakovich (The) Tale of the Priest and his Servant, Balda

Here are two of the more unusual yet also more welcome releases for Shostakovich’s centenary year. His gleeful music for...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2006

Pettersson Violin Concerto No 1; Chamber Works

Readers of a nervous disposition regarding Allan Pettersson’s music should start this disc with the Four Improvisations (1936). The opening’s...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Palestrina Missa Ecca ego Johannes

For sheer beauty of sound, this recording is unsurpassed. Westminster Cathedral Choir has realized to the full the hopes of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 11/1999

Chopin/Rachmaninov/Villa-Lobos - Piano Works

Here is Marc-Andre Hamelin off the leash, free to explore familiar as well as unfamiliar musical territory. Port-Royal’s superb release...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

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