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The Romantic Tenor

It is doubtless a sign that any operatic tenor has really arrived when a record company has him recording a...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/1993

Lully Armide

The story of Armida’s love for Rinaldo, drawn from the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso (1544‑95), was taken...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2011

Elgar Symphony No 1 (Trans for Solo Piano)

Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) is known principally for his compositions for organ and harmonium, but he also wrote some orchestral works...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

Leif Ove Andsnes - Horizons

Andsnes here reveals a hitherto hidden side to his art – the salon charmer. Some of the pieces are favourites...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2006

Bizet Symphony; Roma

Astonishingly, this seems to be only the third complete recording of Roma to be issued in this country. It is...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1990

Prokofiev Film and Stage Music

Prokofiev's incidental music for Eugene Onegin is a major discovery. It was commissioned for the centenary of the death of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992

Sheppard Media Vita

Like his contemporaries, Sheppard had to accomodate himself to changes in the liturgy, as the Tudor monarchs shifted from Roman...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 5/2010

Salute To France

I do so wish that record companies, understandably eager to market their products, would not devalue language. Undemandingly agreeable listening...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1992

Haydn Divertimenti, Vol 4

Pace Manfred Huss's enthusiastic advocacy in his booklet-note, I don't hear anything specially original or characterful in these early divertimentos,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2000

Mahler Symphony No 4

Since the 1892 setting of Das himmlische Leben was Mahler's starting-point for the Fourth Symphony it would be churlish to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1988

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