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Mozart: Serenades and Divertimentos

I have already highly admired the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's debut recording of Rossini overtures (DG (LP) 413 363-1GH; (CD) 413...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1986

Foulds Orchestral and Vocal Works

Sakari Oramo has been programming plenty of 20th-century British music during his Birmingham tenure, a policy which now bears spectacular...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2004

Nordic Songs

The raison d’être for this recording is both a thank-you to Hendricks’s Nordic fans and a desire to bring these...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2003

Bruckner Symphony No. 8

This disc is my first encounter with Kalevi Aho (b. 1949), and I am sure it won’t be the last....

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1997

Schumann/Liszt Piano Works

Surely no greater love-poem has ever been written for the piano than Schumann’s C major Fantasie. Its first and foremost...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1996

Bizet La Jolie Fille de Perth

''Throw yourself into it, try to attain pathos, avoid dryness, don't despise sensuousness too much. Think Mozart and re-read him...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1986

Una Stravanganza dei Medici - Florentine Intermedi (ed. Keyte)

In the spring of 1589 the new Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando de' Medici, married a French princess, Christine of...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1988

Orchestral Works

This disc provides a generous helping of music for string orchestra, and will appeal to admirers of the Academy's distinctive...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1990

Hina Spani

The opening phrases of the first track, “Ma dall’ arido stelo divulsa” from Un ballo in maschera, show immediately why...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Verdi Il Trovatore

We begin in the best of ways. D’Arcangelo offers the most convincingly sung‚ communicative version of Ferrando’s Narration since Zaccaria...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

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