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Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ

Berlioz's nativity oratorio has been described by a leading authority on the composer as ''almost cinematic''; and perhaps taking its...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1986

Debussy/Ravel String Quartets

Whether or not you like everything that the Carmina Quartet does (and in the first movement of the Debussy there...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1993

Porgy and Bess Highlights

Lorin Maazel's Cleveland recording of the complete Porgy and Bess is one of his finest achievements on record, richly emotional,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1986

Handel: Ballet Music

This charming music is charmingly played, and the resulting disc could hardly fail to delight anyone who hears it. The...

Reviewed in issue 6/1985

Piano Dance - Gloria Cheng

Cheng is known to the British catalogue for her recordings of Messiaen (9/96) and Adams and Riley (3/99). This new...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2000

Haydn Early Symphonies

These three early symphonies join the series of ASMF/Marriner recordings of all the 'named' symphonies of Haydn. They are delightfully...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Bernstein (A) Quiet Place

Here is the fulfilment of a long-cherished project. Its roots are in the 1952 one-acter, Trouble in Tahiti, in the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia

It is 21 years since the appearance on LP of Claudio Abbado's earlier DG recording of Rossini's Il barbiere. It...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992

Haydn Notturni for the King of Naples

Haydn’s patrons certainly had off-beat tastes in musical instruments. In the 1760s and 1770s he composed a steady stream of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1998

Sallinen Orchestral Works

None of this material is new. The Mauermusik dates from 1962 when the composer was living in Cologne. It is...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1992

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