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Henze Cantata della fiaba estrema; Novae de infinito laudes

Among Henze’s considerable output there is only a handful of major works for chorus and orchestra. The 1968 oratorio Das...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2004

Wynton Marsalis In Gabriel's Garden

“Dedicated to all the trumpet players who play church gigs every Sunday and are always forced to play softer than...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1996

Thomas Hampson Lieder Recital

At last Thomas Hampson's Dichterliebe: Schumann's song-cycle was recorded live with Geoffrey Parsons at the 1993 Edinburgh Festival in the...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 1/1995

Works for Clarinet and Piano

In an entertaining and revealing note which prefaces this recording, the clarinettist Murray Khouri laments the passing of what he...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 6/1992

Wild about Liszt

Earl Wild (92 in November) is the last great representative of those pianists directly influenced by the playing of Rachmaninov...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2007

Handel Orlando

Those inclined to take for granted Gluck's remarks concerning opera seria (''florid descriptions, unnatural paragons and sententious, cold morality'') could...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1991

Liszt Années de Pèlerinage (Excerpts)

Wilhelm Kempff first recorded this repertoire in the mono era for Decca and in 1975 he offered much of the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2011

Toscanini - Baroque Favourites

This may be unexpected repertory for Toscanini, but his devotion to baroque music is winningly demonstrated at the very start...

Reviewed in issue 6/2000

Elgar Orchestral Works

On this evidence, George Hurst is a breezy, no-nonsense Elgarian. Certainly, the Imperial March seems to be right up his...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1994

Holst (The) Planets; Egdon Heath, Op. 47

And still they come! No doubt spurred into action by Naxos’s phenomenal success‚ the majors‚ it seems‚ are falling over...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

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