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Szymanowski Symphony 2 etc

The Concert Overture is a hugely gifted young composer’s homage to Richard Strauss, and fully worthy of its model in...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Tchaikovsky Ballet Music

Anyone picking this up on impulse as a budget purchase should feel it is value for money. The modern digital...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1988

Roberto Alagna sings Operatic Arias

This keenly awaited record fulfils many of the expectations. The voice is one to rejoice in, especially as it has...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

So many recent recordings of Mahler’s masterpiece have not measured up to the work’s exigent demands, that it is a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2001

Lilburn Orchestral Works

Here is an attractive companion CD to Continuum’s exemplary release containing all three symphonies by Douglas Lilburn (8/94). As it...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1996

Reger Cmplt wks for Violin and Orchestra

Reger’s enormous Violin Concerto had a troubled performance history and lay fallow until Adolf Busch took it up again in...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/2011

R. Strauss Don Quixote & Songs

Above all, this disc is notable for taking advantage of the superlative acoustic of the Victoria Hall in Geneva, home...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1998

Mozart: Lieder

Pleasure at seeing Mozart songs represented in the CD catalogue is severely mitigated by the fact that 88 minutes of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1987

Ibert Persée et Andromède; Sarabande pour Dulcinee

For me two of the great disappointments in 20th-century French music were Auric’s virtual abandonment of ‘pure’ music after the...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 12/2002

Schubert Octet

A spacious performance, enthralling and poetic: it leaves behind the world of happy Viennese music-making (best exemplified on disc, perhaps,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2006

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