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Verdi Ballet Music

The convention which insisted that works performed at the Paris Opera must have an interpolated ballet—however inappropriate to the plot—to...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990

Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Alfred Brendel II

List-making, of which Great Pianists of the 20th Century is an impressive example, is proving to be one of the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1999

Holten Wisdom and Folly, and other Choral Works

Bo Holten has written a substantial corpus of choral music but, as he observes in his notes to the recording,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2005

Toward the Margins Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble

This music is essentially a fairly careful interpenetration of electro-acoustic music and the European school of free improvisation. In the...

Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 13/1997

Seventeenth Century Orchestral Suites

Some new mid-seventeenth-century names to absorb. Of these, only Guillaume Dumanoir is at all familiar, even to specialists in the...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1998

Mozart Orchestral Works

The main item here is the large-scale Serenade K204, one of a series of festive D major works Mozart composed...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1992

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 and 7

It is interesting to reflect that in 1974 there was not a single entry under the name 'Kleiber, Carlos' in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1995

Beethoven Edition, Vol. 4 - Leonore & Fidelio

The 20-volume Complete Beethoven Edition with with which DG celebrate their own centenary has provided the opportunity for an overview...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 13/1997

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4

This revealing Beethoven disc contains two recently discovered broadcast performances from 1943 of Rubinstein and Ormandy in the Third Concerto...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2003

Ruders The Handmaid's Tale

Poul Ruders says of his vividly imaginative opera that he composed it ‘as though I were directing a film’. Precisely:...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/2001

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