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Review of Donizetti La Fille du Régiment (sung in Italian)

Donizetti La Fille du Régiment (sung in Italian)

We may not readily associate Mirella Freni with Maria and the regimental rataplan but she came to Venice for the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1999

Review of CPE Bach Cello Concertos

CPE Bach Cello Concertos

A palpable winner, with some excellent solo playing from Antonio Meneses and alert contributions from the Munich Chamber Orchestra. What...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Review of Duruflé Complete Choral Works

Duruflé Complete Choral Works

With Durufle's centenary still two years away the recent spate of recordings of his Requiem seems somewhat premature. All the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2000

Review of Dvorák Slavonic Dances

Dvorák Slavonic Dances

Talich's 1935 set of Slavonic Dances (recorded for HMV) is richly enjoyable in Music and Arts' excellent new transfer (6/92),...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Review of Il Sibilo

Il Sibilo

Il Sibilo was a weekly newspaper‚ published in Naples in the early 1840s. For one year the publishers had the...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Review of Stravinsky Oedipus Rex

Stravinsky Oedipus Rex

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex was written for the twentieth anniversary of the Diaghilev company, but his only recorded comment on the...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Review of MacDowell Piano Concertos Nos 1-2

MacDowell Piano Concertos Nos 1-2

MacDowell is coming into his own after suffering a long run of condescension at the hands of the Americanist lobby....

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Review of Don't Talk - Just Listen!

Don't Talk - Just Listen!

This group of contemporary vocal works was specially commissioned by The Clerks over the last 10 years and written to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 1/2011

Review of Schütz Christmas Story, etc

Schütz Christmas Story, etc

Schutz’s Weinachtshistorie is a magnificent Christmas counterpart to the Passion, and one can perhaps understand that during his lifetime the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1997

Review of Steiner King Kong (1933 Flimscore)

Steiner King Kong (1933 Flimscore)

The work that established the infant art of dramatic film scoring, Max Steiner’s King Kong (1933) was the prototype and...

Reviewed by Marwalker in issue: 5/1998


 

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