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Zemlinsky Sarema

Sarema (1895) was the 23-year-old Zemlinsky’s first opera, but despite his later fame it was soon forgotten: this recording is...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1997

Suk Asrael Symphony

It seems that Asrael's time has well and truly come, and the appearance of these two new contenders swells the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1994

Dutilleux; Lutoslawski Cello Works

Having impressed with his discs devoted to Honegger, Martin and Schoeck, Christian Poltéra turns to concertos stamped with the indelible...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 4/2010

Red Iris 14th Century Italian Music

Many people have recorded the fourteenth-century instrumental dances that appear only in a single manuscript now in London. Apart from...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/1997

El Nuevo Mundo - Folias Criollas

Hesperion XXI’s recent recordings have seen it strike out in many different directions beyond Europe, in collaboration with local ensembles...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2010

Bach Goldberg Variations

Finnish pianist, Risto Lauriala, has something of that old-fashioned reverence for Bach’s Goldberg Variations. But, in spite of clearly articulated...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998

Ikos

Another disc, hot on the heels of the Oxford Pro Musica recording which I review on page 137, linking the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Charpentier Louise

Beverly Sills gave only one London recital, at the Royal Festival Hall on Bastille Day 1971. The programme was Mozart,...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1995

MASSENET Manon

Hurrah for EMI! It is the last remaining major company to take seriously the recording of mainstream operas, that is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2000

English Virginals Music

Sophie Yates follows her French and Iberian collections (11/93 and 11/94) with an English one, an overview of the period...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1995

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