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Julian Bream plays Granados and Albéniz

Among all my excited early responses to the remarkable realism possible through the Compact Disc this electrifying recital stands out....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1983

Sibelius Symphonies Nos 2 & 7; Finlandia

Arvo Volmer conducted the Adelaide orchestra of which he is music director in a well received four-concert Sibelius festival earlier...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 1/2008

Haydn (The) Creation

After the opulent forces of Paul McCreesh’s Gramophone Awardwinning Creation, this new English-language recording replicates the more modest scale of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2009

Beethoven: Chamber Works for Flute

Galway is certainly engagingly whimsical in the bright, rhythmic outer movements of the Op. 25 Serenade, and if his strong...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1990

Beveridge Yizkor Requiem

If Leonard Bernstein could write his theatrical Mass and an ecumenical Chichester Psalms, what’s to stop a nice Episcopalian boy...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 3/2006

Bach St John Passion

This recording of Bach's St John Passion was made in 1960 at the outset of a fruitful collaboration between Erato...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1990

Liszt A Faust Symphony

Liszt's three ''character portraits'' (to quote L'Abbe himself) have long enjoyed convincing gramophone advocacy, with fine pre-digital versions by Beecham,...

Reviewed in issue 5/1994

Shakespeare in Song

This is an enterprising disc from Chandos, which has reached out a long arm to bring in an accomplished American...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2004

Villa-Lobos Choros , Vol 1

The word ‘Chôro’ derives from the verb chôrar (to weep), a reflection of the vein of melancholy never far below...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/2004

Rossini (L') Italiana in Algeri

Though stylishly conducted and strongly cast, this 2006 revival of Dario Fo’s 1994 Pesaro production of L’italiana in Algeri seemed...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2007

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