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Tomasi Requiem, etc

Inscribed to “all the martyrs of the Resistance and to all those who have died for France”, the 1945 Requiem...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998

German Opera Arias-Kiri Te Kanawa

This makes such a lovely beginning that one is doubly loath to report eventual disappointment. The arias from Der Freischutz...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Suk Piano Music, Vol 1

Though he wrote a few large-scale orchestral works‚ Suk was happier with smaller forms‚ and his piano music is some...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2002

Manoury 60th Parallel

By the standards of contemporary opera, 60th Parallel has had good exposure. Commissioned by IRCAM and Paul Sacher (among others)...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2001

Schifrin & Villa-Lobos Guitar Concertos

Villa-Lobos's Concerto is a curious work: five years after it was written (as a Fantasia Concertante) the composer added a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1986

Mendelssohn Works for Cello & Piano

Christophe Coin's new excursion into the early romantic cello repertoire, has, I fear, been only partially successful. His Harmonia Mundi...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1993

Beethoven Complete Symphonies

In a witheringly funny piece on the current state of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Michael Henderson observed that “if Proust...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2007

Bach Goldberg Variations

Here’s a first: Bach’s Goldberg Variations as scored for two oboes, one cor anglais and one bassoon by Andrei Eshpai....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2008

Summertime

It would be hard to devise a song­miscellany more attractive than this‚ bringing together so many popular favourites as well...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Haydn Symphonies Nos 100 & 104

A disappointing coupling and one that does little to enhance Klemperer's reputation. As it happens the first movement of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1985

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