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Korngold - Adventures of a Wunderkind

‘The Adventures’ must refer to Korngold’s famous score for The Adventures of Robin Hood, because as Barrie Gavin’s documentary reveals,...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 9/2003

Schubert Piano Works, Vol. 3

When he first recorded the Reliquie ten years ago for Erato (nla), Dalberto gave us just the first two movements...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1990

Tansman Piano Works

Alexandre Tansman lived from 1897 to 1986, and this selection of his compositions for solo piano spans the years 1915...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2009

Saint-Saëns: Orchestral Works

For a work that will never be exactly easy to capture on record (and it may be significant that none...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1987

Meet Joe Black Original Soundtrack

Martin Brest’s Meet Joe Black is the rarest of Hollywood creatures – a three-hour character study that combines comedy with...

Reviewed in issue 5/1999

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, Volume 14

The producers are not so rash or, maybe, so publicity-minded, as to claim premiere recordings here, but they could probably...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Mozart Symphonies 36 & 38

What is it that makes the art of Mozart interpretation such a minefield? I have puzzled over this for many...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

Berg Wozzeck

This is very close to what it must be like to hear Wozzeck from the prompter's box: everything in close-up,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1994

Rossini Piano Works, Vol.1

The piano music Rossini wrote for the celebrated Saturday Soirees which he and his second wife, Olympe Pelissier, hosted during...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2000

Vienna - Operetta Arias

Julia Migenes's natural feeling for Viennese operetta has already been well demonstrated in a 1978 Acanta recital emanating from Cologne...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1994

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