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White Night. Strid

BIS’s programme “White Night: Impressions of Norwegian folk music” opens with Gjermund Larsen’s Polonaise, at times seeming like a New...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2011

Verdi (La) forza del destino: Overture; Requiem

‘And what will it be like repeating this in the Royal Festival Hall?’ I asked Simon Rattle after he had...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2004

Bellini Norma (DVD)

In her autobiography (APrima Donna’s Progress‚ Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1997) Sutherland recalls this production as ‘very beautiful with a silvery...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Dickinson Vocal Works

Peter Dickinson's Mass of the Apocalypse is ingenious both in imagery and technique. Scored for soloists, chorus, piano and percussion,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1989

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms; (Les) Noces; Threni

In this hugely enjoyable account of Les Noces the singers are all British but they have obviously worked very hard‚...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Gesualdo Tenebrae

Historically there have been two quite different views about Gesualdo and his music. The first, now of such standing to...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/1992

Telemann Concerto & Overtures

The spontaneous musical gestures and lively imagination of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra are particularly well suited to the Overture-Suites of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1995

Rachmaninov Works for Piano & Orchestra

Both performances have the characteristic Ousset tonal body and musical panache; both reaffirm the warm sympathy that's always existed between...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1987

Barber Orchestral Works

The main interest here is the Second Symphony, though to be honest I can now see why Barber should at...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/1989

Vaughan Williams Orchestral works

These four examples of Vaughan Williams in mainly meditative mood are attractively performed by The Consort of London. Its conductor,...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

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