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James Rhodes - Bullets and Lullabies

James Rhodes’s first release since signing with Warner Classics and Jazz encompasses two distinct and relatively brief recitals made up...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2011

Respighi Orchestral Works

This Mercury reissue is the equivalent of two analogue LPs, of which the Roman coupling has not been available in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1991

Foulds (A) World Requiem

The gestation period needed to absorb fully this extraordinary World Requiem has simply not been available. So when I admit...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2008

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

Two good Second Symphonies, very unalike, though their respective couplings are more problematic. Douglas Boyd appears to have taken a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2004

d'Indy Orchestral Works

An ardent Wagnerian, d'Indy was also an intense nationalist (his orchestration often has a Berliozian airiness, imagination and purity of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1995

Meyerbeer L'Africaine

Handsomely staged and sumptuously costumed‚ this famous production‚ first seen in 1972‚ makes good viewing; and on DVD the sound...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

French Vocal Music

Each song or movement here starts so promisingly that it is sad to have to report an over all disappointment....

Reviewed in issue 1/1985

Lukaszewski Choral Music

This is a lovely disc of enchanting choral music. Possibly the Trinity College Choir does not always provide the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/2008

Victoria Sacred Choral Works

The extended series of recordings of an individual composer’s works – if not always the opera omnia – is much...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 8/1997

Handel - Handel at Home

Handel wrote very little for the flute. Indeed, when he wrote the indication ‘flauto’ in his scores he meant recorder....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2006

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