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Scriabin Symphony No 1

Both figuratively and literally this is a symphony and a half, and no mistake. A more or less conventional four-movement...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1986

Sweet as Bardic Harp-Songs with Harp

Sweet indeed: Rachel Ann Morgan sings both simply and beautifully, and plays the harp (on this occasion a splendidly resonant...

Reviewed in issue 12/1987

Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610

The Choir of New College, Oxford, kick off their new own-brand label with an ambitious work, but despite strong and...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2010

Classic American Love Songs

Carole Farley offers an unhackneyed selection of American popular song. In Arlen’s case we have a group of songs that...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2007

Beethoven in Berlin New Year's Eve Concert

''Die Mauer offnet sich''—''The wall opens up''—announces the Narrator at the start of the ''Melodrama'' in Beethoven's Incidental Music to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1992

Schubert/Stravinsky/Mozart - Chamber Works

An imaginatively planned disc, like a really well-conceived concert programme. Pairing the Stravinsky quartet music with the Three Pieces for...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/1998

Monteverdi Selva morale; Picchi Canzoni da sonar

It has long been recognized that the Selva morale e spirituale of 1640 is something of a miscellany of works...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1994

Mozart: Symphonies

As I said last month, when reviewing the concert and chamber music sets in this special EMI Mozart Edition, the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1991

Dyson Orchestral Works

There is a most appealing picture of Sir George Dyson in the booklet accompanying this disc—sitting working at his desk,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1993

Janácek Chamber Works

This is an odd assemblage of Janacek’s late chamber music, but the music itself is capable of an oddity which...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1997

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