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Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony/Berg Lyric Suite

A first-class bargain, let down only by inadequate notes, the fact that the words of the vocal pieces are not...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1997

Blow Awake my lyre

Among the many excellent features of the English Orpheus series, of which this issue is Vol. 20, is the provision...

Reviewed in issue 1/1994

Fauré; Ravel String Quartets

Ravel’s Quartet, written in his late twenties, and Fauré’s, written in his late seventies, conform fairly closely to our expectations...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 8/2005

Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur

It may be getting dangerously close to saying precisely what I don't want to say about this set, but one...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990

Elgar Orchestral Works

This super-budget Elgar Second is surely well worth anyone's money. As on Loughran's companion disc of the First Symphony (2/93),...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1993

Haydn Cello Concertos

Julian Lloyd Webber gives a creditable performance of these concertos in which he very ably directs the orchestra himself; the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Larsen Orchestral Works

This is a terrific disc. Right from the very first bars of the invigorating Water Music Symphony (1984), one is...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Spohr Clarinet Concertos Nos 3 & 4

This outstanding disc is the counterpart of Michael Collins’s coupling of Spohr’s first two Clarinet Concertos with the same forces...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2008

Haydn Piano Trio Concertini and Divertimenti

What’s genuine mingles with much that is inauthentic, thought to be authentic or of doubtful provenance. It’s the sort of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2010

Elena Zaremba - Portrait

Zaremba‚ as she showed a few years ago at Covent Garden‚ has one of those rich‚ voluptuous mezzos that entrance...

Reviewed in issue 13/2001

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