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Bartók Wooden Prince; Dance Suite

This performance of Bartok's most sumptuous and self-indulgent orchestral score is every bit as enjoyably extravagant as I remembered it...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1989

Dupuy Youth and Folly

If Edouard Dupuy (?1770-1822) hadn’t written an opera somebody would have had to write an opera about him. Of obscure...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1997

Messiaen Catalogue d'oiseaux

Messiaen was very proud of how pictorial his Catalogue d’oiseaux is, of how it illustrates not only the songs of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1998

Tenebrae - Responses for Good Friday

Gesualdo's Tenebrae have a distinguished discography. Ten years ago the Hilliard Ensemble's recording of all three days of the Triduum...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2000

Cavalli Operas Arias & Duets

Monteverdi’s operatic masterpieces are now established in repertoire as in reputation. With the famous production of Calisto at Glyndebourne in...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2005

Nosyrev (The) Song of Triumphant Love - Ballet

Only on his death in 1981 was Mikhail Nosyrev rehabilitated, after a lifetime of betrayal, imprisonment and then – following...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2000

Camilla Nylund sings Britten, Debussy, Kuula & Sibelius

At the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, I was surprised that the jury did not see fit to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1998

Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

This is a good Vaughan Williams selection—three of his most popular works plus the early 'symphonic impression' In the Fen...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The sound on CD is close, with the wind and piano more forward in the balance—the piano especially—than I would...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Mahler Symphony No 1

You can glean something of Haitink’s approach to music-making from the way he marks up his scores. Or rather doesn’t...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2009

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