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Philip Wilby Heaven in Ordinarie

Philip Wilby’s versatility as a composer has encompassed all forms of instrumental and vocal music but he’s particularly renowned for...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2011

Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream

Britten wrote nothing more sensuous, indeed more sensual than the scene in Act 2 here between Tytania and the transformed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Humperdinck Hänsel & Gretel

This DVD version of Hänsel und Gretel starts well with the glorious horns of the Dresden Staatskapelle in the overture,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2007

Shostakovich Symphony No 5; Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead

Whatever the reputation of Evgeni Svetlanov the apparatchik, his big, bold musical personality was treasured by many and is everywhere...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2008

Campra Grands Motets

After an initial career as a church musician in Toulouse and later in Paris at Notre-Dame, André Campra abandoned it...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 4/2004

Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol 2

Lovely to hear each of these four masterpieces granted its own unique personality. Try by way of an example the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2007

George Lloyd Aubade and other music for Two Pianos

Here is an enticing programme of eclectic, always tuneful works, most attractively laid out for two pianos. The dream-like Aubade,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1997

Verdi Alzira

Orfeo have picked up the challenge of recording at least one of Verdi's early operas where Philips dropped it. Not...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1984

Barbirolli conducts Mozart and R Strauss

Because Sir John Barbirolli’s studio recording of Ein Heldenleben appeared posthumously, as Sir Thomas Beecham’s stereo remake had done, it...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2001

Menotti Violin Concertos; Cantatas

Gian­Carlo Menotti’s lyrical Violin Concerto of 1952‚ one of his most popular instrumental works‚ is here neatly coupled with première...

Reviewed in issue 5/2002

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