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French Orchestral Works

Marriner is becoming quite a master like Beecham himself at compiling lollipop records, and here in the French repertory he...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984

Meyerbeer/Cherubini Songs

A musical evening in Paris in the early 1800s could be a cosmopolitan affair. This programme of rarities pairs the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Weber Oberon

Oberon will always be a problem work. Weber wrote it for a set of English theatrical conventions, in which music...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993

Hefti, D ROTAS; Wunderhorn-Musick

David Philip Hefti (b1975) has emerged during a period in which the European avant-garde no longer dominates the new music...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2010

Beethoven; Schubert Piano Sonatas

Solomon, the greatest pianist the UK has produced by a long chalk, recorded fairly regularly from 1941 until the end...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2002

Purcell Theatre Music, Vol 1

Purcell’s theatre music has not received a complete survey since Christopher Hogwood’s pioneering set from the 1970s and ’80s, and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2008

Victoria de los Angeles sings Spanish Songs

This is a disc that barely needs any recommendation from a reviewer, especially at medium price. Three years after making...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1992

Mozart Night Music

The chief delight in this first offering from The English Concert under its new director, Andrew Manze, is the performance...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2003

Byrd Gradualia (excs)

In a fine extended introductory essay Michael Noone suggests that Byrd’s Gradualia stand out in his output, on account of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2009

Callas

Tony Palmer’s video biography of Callas was made in VHS form a couple of years after her death. It now...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2007

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