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Monteverdi Vespers

You may be wondering if this is quite the right moment for yet another version of the Monteverdi Vespers. At...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/1991

Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 5 & 9

The oddly matter-of-fact opening momentarily disconcerts, but Kees Bakels’s bright-eyed reading of the Fifth Symphony soon settles down. The Bournemouth...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1999

Grechaninov Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4

The earlier of the two symphonies recorded here dates from 1909, and was premiered almost immediately; the latter was completed...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1996

Handel Sacred & Secular Arias

Robert Expert’s booklet-note insinuates a desire to be an expert by nature, too. Alas, the attractive packaging conceals poor-quality content:...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2005

Schumann/Liszt/Grieg Piano Works

British-born but American-based Harold Bauer (1873-1951) was largely self taught and, well into his career, made a dramatic switch from...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1997

Verdi Rigoletto

David McVicar’s engrossing and perceptive production of Rigoletto last year at Covent Garden caused something of a stir because of...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Beethoven Choral Symphony

It is possible to be too much in awe of the Ninth Symphony. Self-belief and a touch of flamboyance, such...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1996

Beethoven: Fidelio

This is a Fidelio that approaches the work very much from the Singspiel standpoint. There is no attempt at romantic...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990

Schoenberg Moses und Aron

A student recently asked Milton Babbitt what he made of the plot of Moses und Aron. “Oh I don’t know,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2007

Night Vigil-St Petersburg Litany

Quite by chance I heard this choir singing Vespers five years ago in what was then Leningrad and was deeply...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

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