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French Vocal Music

The transfer of this partially successful recital to CD has been accomplished with the usual increase in immediacy of sound...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Reminding

Matthew Barley has chosen works by composers who usually present a stern face and, despite the inclusion of a piece...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 3/2006

Wolkenstein - Songs of Myself

This is a winner; and it will add enormously to Andreas Scholl’s already enormous reputation. In the music of Oswald...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/2010

Lortzing (The) Armorer of Worms

Der Waffenschmied (or ‘The Armourer’) is one of Lortzing’s most congenial operas, produced in Vienna in 1846 and immediately successful....

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2005

Baroque Oboe Concertos

This is an attractive selection of late-baroque Italian concertos for oboe and strings. All but one of them are by...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1989

Haydn Symphonies Nos 39 & 45; Yun Chamber Symphony I

While any extra-musical concept underlying Haydn's Sturm und Drang symphonies may be vague, the works here frame a significant phase...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 5/2008

Theresienstadt Project

The music on this CD is beautiful, some of it comic, some of it elegiac; all of it almost unbearably...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 10/2007

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Original Soundtrack

The original soundtrack album of Jerry Goldsmith’s milestone score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) was, unfortunately, an abbreviated...

Reviewed by kmulhall in issue: 5/1999

Franck Organ Works

The centenary of Franck's death seems to have sparked off a spate of new recordings of his organ music, already...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1990

Albeniz Iberia

At first glance, I thought our esteemed reviews editor had sent me a book to review: a hardback (conventional paperback...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2010

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