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Massenet Eve

Composed in 1875, two years after the better-known Marie-Magdeleine, to a text by Louis Gallet (librettist of Thais among many...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1999

MILO

Born in 1981, Guy Johnston was a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, before studying cello at Chetham’s School in Manchester...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2010

Martinu Ballets

La Revue de cuisine was the only one of these three ballets (all dating from 1927) performed in the composer’s...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2004

Shostakovich String Quartet 15. Gubaidulina Rejoice!

The background to Sofia Gubaidulina's Rejoice!, as Laurel Fay's sleeve-note informs us, is in the spiritual lessons of Grigory Skovoroda,...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Orff: Carmina Burana

No one could question the tingling energy which informs Franz Welser-Most's performance of Carmina burana, which reaches its climax in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990

Elgar (The) Dream of Gerontius

It is only fitting that the Hallé should be the source of the only recording of Gerontius in recent times...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2009

Britten/Walton Works for Cello and Orchestra

This is an inspired coupling of two works, closely parallel in the careers of their composers, each reflecting the mastery...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1997

Bach Violin Concertos (Reconstructed)

None of these reconstructions are included in Teldec’s Bach 2000, although the better-known ‘originals’ obviously are. The real newcomer is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2001

Boyd Neel conducts Britten & Vaughan Williams

Even during their earliest days in the late 1920s Decca promoted small orchestras and baroque music. There was a Handel...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

This is a disappointingly limp effort on behalf of what should be a supremely potent opera, whose first appearance on...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2005

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