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Britten Noye's Fludde

Not the least pleasure of Noye's Fludde is its comprehensiveness. There are passages in which the small group of professionals...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1991

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op 10

Maurizio Pollini’s unfolding Beethoven sonata cycle continues with the infinitely varied Opp 10 and 13 Sonatas, compelling you to wonder...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2004

Glitter and Be Gay Coloratura Soprano Arias

Here is another of those high and highly accomplished sopranos—the Chinese coloratura Dilber and the American Beverly Hoch come to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1994

Harvey Passion and Resurrection

I wonder whether the audience were warned that they’d be called on to lend their voices to this performance, recorded...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2004

Pacini Maria Regina d'Inghilterra

Opera Rara staged Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra under the name of Maria Tudor at the Camden Festival in 1983, meeting little...

Reviewed in issue 7/1998

Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5

Only last July, I was reporting on the excellence of Jean-Philippe Collard's recording of the Second and Fourth Concertos (EL270552-1,...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1987

Tchaikovsky Serenade; Nocturne; Suite No 4; Legend

Britten conducting Tchaikovsky? It’s probably not our loss that the 1812 Overture doesn’t feature on the programme, the common ground...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1999

Bruckner Symphony No 5

‘Not completion. Not rounding off but opening out.’ That is how EM Forster thought a great work of art should...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2005

Boult conducts English Gramophone Premieres

This is a first-rate performance of Bliss’s Cello Concerto from Tim Hugh, stylishly and sympathetically partnered by David Lloyd-Jones and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1997

Field: Nocturnes & Rondos

Although one is told that this generous helping of Field's music is played on a Steinway piano, the tone of...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1990

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