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Nørgård Violin Concerto No 2; Dream Play; Voyage into the Golden Screen

Undeniably Denmark’s leading living composer, Nørgård’s compositional trajectory can be confusing even to the initiated. Moving from Nordic symph- onism...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2004

Verdi Falstaff

This DVD is aimed at a specialist audience. Recorded in 1963, it is a black-and-white Austrian television broadcast of Verdi’s...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 13/2010

Weelkes Anthems

Weelkes’s church music is often cited in illustration of the flaws in his genius. While it is probably pointless to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1996

Roberto Alagna – Nessun Dorma

The introductory essay speaks of the antipathy felt by many musical people towards the school of Italian opera represented here,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2003

Popular Schubert Songs

The voice comes straight in, opening the recital with Die Forelle, dispensing with piano introduction, and it evokes immediately the...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

A Russian Christmas

Here is an exhilarating disc of early Russian Christmas music let down by inadequate documentation and translations of titles: Peaceful...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

Maria Callas sings Operatic Arias

Callas's 1961 collection of French operatic arias, reissued by EMI on LP in June 1983 (nla), is one of her...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1988

Elgar Songs

'Readily identifiable chips from a great workshop': Jerrold Northrop Moore's phrase for Elgar's songs in his gracefully informative notes draws...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1999

Elgar Orchestral Works

This batch of Elgar records varies a good deal in technical quality as did the original recordings. The symphony gets...

Reviewed in issue 6/1984

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 12 & 14

The impossibly resonant venue chosen here has all but wrecked what might have been an outstanding release. Like soft-focus photography...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

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