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Shostakovich Symphony No 11

For sound enthusiasts on a budget, Oleg Caetani’s continuing Shostakovich cycle is worth considering. While his Milan orchestra cannot hope...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2005

Haydn Die Schöpfung

Forget, for a moment, the period piping wood-doves, thunderbolts rattling authentically from short sticks, the presence or absence of double-bass...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1991

Requiem Aeternam

Both Martin’s Mass and Howells’ Requiem were regarded by their composers as being too deeply personal utterances to be allowed...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2004

Gounod Mors et Vita

Following the huge popular success of his oratorio La Redemption, given at Birmingham in 1882, Gounod was commissioned by his...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1993

Mark Reizen (1895-1992) - II

Preiser's Mark Reizen, Vol. 1 (12/92) confined itself to Russian opera, and was greeted in these columns as containing ''glorious...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Bo Skovhus The Heart of the Poet

Skovhus sings boldly, on a large canvas, in these songs by the Schumanns. He is at his most convincing in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1996

Mahler Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

It was the enthusiastic reviews of the late Alan Blyth in Gramophone’s pages that led me to Stephan Genz’s superb...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 7/2008

Elgar Violin & Piano Works

Here's a useful assembly of Elgar's complete output for violin and piano, painstakingly gathered by the set's producer, Christopher Todd...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1993

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 19 and 29

François-Frédéric Guy's new recording of Beethoven's mighty Hammerklavier Sonata makes for fascinating comparison with his 1997 traversal on Harmonia Mundi...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2006

Brahms Lieder

This is a happy sequel to Margaret Price's earlier Schubert record for Orfeo (S001811A, 9/83) and a further offering, of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1985

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