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Review of French Orchestral Works

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

Review of Meyerbeer/Cherubini Songs

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

Review of Weber Oberon

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

Review of Hefti, D ROTAS; Wunderhorn-Musick

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

Review of Beethoven; Schubert Piano Sonatas

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

Review of Purcell Theatre Music, Vol 1

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

Review of Victoria de los Angeles sings Spanish Songs

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

Review of Mozart Night Music

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

Review of Byrd Gradualia (excs)

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

Review of Callas

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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