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Lamento d'Arianna various settings

This has been something of an annus mirabilis for Monteverdians: two new recordings of his last great opera, L'incoronazione de...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 12/1990

David Munrow Edition - (The) Art of the Netherlands

Last year saw the launch of the David Munrow Edition on Virgin Veritas (9/96). The series continues with this, arguably...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997

Bridge Piano Quintet

I’ve long regarded Frank Bridge’s comprehensive 1912 revision of his D minor Piano Quintet from seven years before as the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2009

Works for Cello and Orchestra

In 1989 the LSO and Shell UK combined to give Alun Hoddinott a magnificent sixtieth birthday present, commissioning a work...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1991

Arnell (The) Great Detective; (The) Angels

Dutton’s enterprising exploration of the works of Richard Arnell here moves from the symphonies and Piano Concerto (9/06, 6/07, 11/07)...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2008

Berlioz Roméo et Juliette

It is encouraging to find the LSO Live series of super-budget discs developing like this with such an ambitious issue....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000

Bartók String Quartets Nos 1-3

Rather a pity that I had only recently listened to the Arcanto String Quartet, one of the finest new Bartók...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2007

Chopin Piano Works

Russian-born Katia Skanavi has enough technique to set the final pages of her curtain-raiser (the Op 12 Variations) ablaze and...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2000

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suites

Ripe tone is obviously wanting in, say, the great waves that progress through the balcony and parting scenes; and the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1993

Mahler Symphony No 1

We have a David and Goliath situation here: the superstar well and truly thrashed by the underdog – albeit one...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/2008

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