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Review of Korngold; Rozsa Violin Concertos

Korngold; Rozsa Violin Concertos

This is the third recording of the Korngold Concerto to have come my way in mere months – demonstrating, perhaps,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 1/2010

Review of Britten: Songs

Britten: Songs

In all Britten's multifarious writing for the tenor voice there is no more ecstatically lyrical outpouring than the final section...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1990

Review of Mitterer, W Music for checking e-mails

Mitterer, W Music for checking e-mails

And with a wry riff off the title, maybe, of Andy Williams’s “Music To Watch Girls By”, Music for checking...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2010

Review of Land of Heart's Desire

Land of Heart's Desire

You need to know your way around the Gramophone Database to find anything relating to this. “Kennedy-Fraser” (“Fraser,...

Reviewed in issue 6/1998

Review of Wert Vox in Rama (il secondo libro de motetti a cinque voci)

Wert Vox in Rama (il secondo libro de motetti a cinque voci)

Giaches de Wert is best known for his madrigals and for the influence he had on the young Monteverdi, who...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2008

Review of Lentz Orchestral Works

Lentz Orchestral Works

Yet another American flees from the extremes of modernism to the safety of the good old triad and the ubiquitous...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Review of Chopin: Piano works

Chopin: Piano works

This is not an easy release to write about. Although I would hardly have chosen Bolet as a favourite pianist...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1988

Review of Sibelius Piano Works

Sibelius Piano Works

This disc assembles some of the best of Sibelius’s piano music – Kyllikki and the three Sonatinas, Op. 67. These...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1996

Review of Sacred Evergreens

Sacred Evergreens

Writing in February, my colleague JBS expressed mixed reactions to the LP and I too find the singing a little...

Reviewed in issue 2/1985

Review of Mozart Piano Duet Works

Mozart Piano Duet Works

Patrick Crommelynck and Taeko Kuwata (a lady from Japan) met as fellow students of Dieter Weber in Vienna. They formed...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1987


 

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