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Mussorgsky Songs & Dances of Death. Svirdov Russia Adrift

Lina Mkrtchian has a strong voice with a wide range of colour, impressively wide when she allies this to sharply...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1999

Hartmann Liden Kirsten

Little Kirsten (‘Liden Kirsten’; 1845-6) was the third opera composed by Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900) and the second in...

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Furtwängler Symphony No 2

This 2003 Weimar recording of Furtwängler’s Second Symphony completes George Alexander Albrecht’s cycle of the three Furtwängler symphonies. His reading...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2005

Weber Piano Sonatas

Martin Jones's pairing of Weber's first two sonatas makes a welcome return to the catalogue, even if these are performances...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1992

Vaughan Williams (The) Pilgrim's Progress

This is not the opera (though related to it), but a presentation of material used in a BBC broadcast of...

Reviewed in issue 8/1991

June Anderson French Opera Arias

Progress, as somebody must have said, is a funny thing. Here we are in 1991 with miracles of technology involved...

Reviewed in issue 1/1991

Carwithen Orchestral Works

The composer Doreen Carwithen, vigorous in her music as well as warmly lyrical, has hidden her light for over 40...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn

A finely balanced recording places the voices in ideal relationship with the orchestra which itself is given a well-aired, clean...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999

Mendelssohn Complete String Symphonies

''Mendelssohn—12 years old—promises much''—this prophetic entry made by Beethoven in one of his conversation books is surely vindicated on the...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1991

Bach Solo Cantatas

How very fortunate are singers in the alto tessitura to have two Bach cantatas of such overwhelming beauty as Nos....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1990

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