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Messiaen Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus

I was a bit reluctant, on the principle of not looking gift horses in the mouth, to subject this outstandingly...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1994

Smetana Ma vlast

Patrick Lambert’s superb survey of Czech conductors “In the shadow of Talich” (ICRC, Summer 1996) makes generous and rightful claims...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Tiana Lemnitz (1897-1994) - I

I have never quite shared the enthusiasm for Lemnitz's singing expressed by some colleagues and friends (though not by JBS,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990

Stravinsky Works for small orchestra

Harmonia Mundi’s annotation tells us that Josep Pons “combines his profession as orchestral conductor with an intense teaching career”. I...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Mahler Symphony No 1

Still they come: the count stands now at 24 versions. There are no revelations to speak of here, save the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1990

Wagner Orchestral Works

The first point worth noting about this enjoyable release is its remarkable sound quality: the actual recorded balance is extremely...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Christoph von Dohnányi in Rehearsal

‘That’s how I would like my Ninth Symphony to sound!’ exclaimed Brahms on the slow movement of this‚ one of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2002

Joyce Hatto - Liszt Recital, Vol 1

Joyce Hatto was first celebrated for her Liszt performances and here, complementing her disc of the Transcendental Etudes, she offers...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2007

Skalkottas Chamber Works

The Skalkottas discography is dominated by the important series issued by BIS, making alternative versions the more welcome – not...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 5/2010

Handel Solomon

The libretto of Solomon, author unknown, is strange. Much of Act 1 is devoted to an epithalamium celebrating the wedding...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

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