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Vivaldi (La) Griselda

Apostolo Zeno's libretto Griselda is derived from Boccaccio, served as the text for Alessandro Scarlatti's final opera at Rome, and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2008

Sole e Amore: Puccini Arias

This is a Puccini recital disc with a difference. The title, “Sole e amore” (“Sunshine and Love”) is taken not...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1997

Kokkonen Works for String Orchestra

Both as symphonist and operatic composer the 70-year-old Joonas Kokkonen has been rather overshadowed in recent years by his younger...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

50 Years of the Deller Consort

The evocative sound of the Deller Consort is one of the lasting wonders of the pioneering years of the early...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2000

Colin Currie - Striking a Balance

The young Scottish percussionist Colin Currie first came to prominence in 1992 when he won the prestigious Shell/LSO scholarship at...

Reviewed by mharry in issue: 8/1998

Bernstein Mass

To all the naysayers, bug-eyed sceptics and disapproving doubting Thomases, listen up: a third apostle has spoken. If Leonard Bernstein’s...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 9/2009

Americans! - 20th Century Piano Music of American Composers

This exceptionally interesting programme celebrates the work of six composers who, as Emanuele Arciuli tells us in his lively and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2000

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

This is the genuine article – live and alive – an unpatched one-off performance bursting at the seams with passion,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1999

Korngold/Krenek/Weill Violin Concertos

Fleeing from Hitler in the 1930s, Korngold, Weill and Krenek all went to the United States, but fared very differently....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1997

Messiaen - Complete Organ Works, Vol 4

Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur is one of the greatest 20th-century organ works. Some of the nine movements celebrating the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2009

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