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Byrd Second Service & Consort Anthems

Byrd’s Latin settings have been recorded more often than the English, perhaps because the Protestant aesthetic is generally more austere...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2007

Gieseking plays Debussy, Ravel & Schumann

It is difficult to justify the issue of recordings which diminish rather than enhance a great artist’s reputation, and this...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2000

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.5; Orchestral Suite No.2 etc

The lines between different sorts of performance of earlier music are becoming increasingly blurred. In a phrase that’s not entirely...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2001

Strauss Elektra

It's a change to see a production of Strauss's and Hofmannsthal's psychotic masterwork that's not weighted with greater German gloom,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 2/2007

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - excerpts

Like, I suspect, a good many readers, I have long cherished Claudio Abbado’s 1966 Romeo and Juliet selection with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1998

R. Ward Orchestral Works

Robert Ward is an American, born in 1917, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for his opera The Crucible (after Miller)...

Reviewed in issue 9/1989

Works by Peter Maxwell Davies

The Eight Songs are 18-years old now, and the Maggot is 13, but their shock-value has not yet worn off....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1988

Mahler Symphony No 4

While followers of Svetlanov’s ongoing cycle may be prepared for the distinctive style of orchestral playing on offer here, there...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Sousa (El) Capitan

This was the most successful of Sousa’s 15 operas but it still needed far more restoration than Joplin’s Treemonisha before...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1999

Shostakovich Symphony No 7

With the disappearance of the Melodiya catalogue (at least in the UK‚ where BMG’s licence to distribute the label has...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

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