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Barber Orchestral Works

It’s good to have on one CD all three of Barber’s Essays (1937; 1942; and 1978 – information not provided...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: A Portrait

A somewhat grouchy acceptance of the television style gives way before long to acknowledgment of a tricky job well done...

Reviewed in issue 12/2001

Bacri Cantatas

As Bach, Handel and Scarlatti are acknowledged as models for Nicolas Bacri’s cantatas, it is relevant to point out that...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2004

Mahler Symphony No.2

In recording his Mahler cycle in Amsterdam there was a sense in which Riccardo Chailly was bringing coals to Newcastle....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2012

(The) Play of Daniel

The Ludus Danielis is a rare example of an early liturgical drama set to music. It survives in a manuscript...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 13/2008

Virtuoso Guitar Transcriptions

If any guitarist in this country has faster fingers than Nicola Hall I have yet to hear him/her, and perhaps...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1992

Bowen (The) Romantic Concerto, Vol 46

Now within sight of its half century, Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series retains its ability to whet the appetite with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2008

Lehar Friederike

Friederike is a curiosity among Lehár’s works – not strictly an operetta but rather, as he deliberately termed it, a...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2011

Prokofiev Piano Works, Vol. 5

For a work that was once regarded as a landmark in twentieth-century piano music, Hindemith’s Ludus tonalis has received scant...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 5/1996

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake - excerpts

Conifer are planning to record the three major Tchaikovsky ballets complete, with the Royal Opera orchestra, and in each case...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1989

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