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Birtwistle Secret Theatre

When these recordings first appeared Birtwistle enthusiasts were still absorbing the impact of three 1986 premieres, Earth Dances, The Mask...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2008

Brahms Orchestral Works

The growing profusion of new versions of the key repertoire works, truthfully recorded, often brings a critical dilemma, and this...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1991

Lehar (The) Merry Widow

Producers’ visions can make or break opera or operetta on DVD. Lotfi Mansouri’s farewell production for San Francisco Opera, presented...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/2003

Reicha Wind Quintets

The more of Reicha’s vast output becomes known, the odder he seems – ‘bizarre’, as his puzzled contemporaries repeatedly called...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/1997

Strauss, R (Ein) Heldenleben; Webern Im Sommerwind

Bernard Haitink, the most European of conductors, might seem an unexpected choice as principal conductor of America’s most high-powered orchestra,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2010

Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Concerto; Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3

This unexpected and in some ways incongruous coupling is defended by the conductor on the grounds of stylistic diversity and...

Reviewed in issue 10/1997

Bach Cantatas 9, 119 & 120

Unlike Koopman and Suzuki, Philippe Herreweghe has provided (for Virgin and HM) a refreshing alternative to cantata completism over the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2000

Vivaldi Sacred Music, Vol. 8

Volume 8 of the King's Consort's Vivaldi sacred music series gives the choir a rest and focuses on motets for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2002

Glazunov Raymonda - excs; Symphony No 8

Glazunov’s Eighth Symphony’s arrival in 1905 was concurrent with one of Russia’s key revolutionary dates but there is nothing revolutionary...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2005

Schubert String Quartets, D703 & D810

The Lindsay's approach to the first movement of the Death and the Maiden is highly charged and dramatic. They employ...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

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