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Review of Auber Fra Diavolo

Auber Fra Diavolo

Once a regular part of the repertoire, Fra Diavolo has not been given at Covent Garden since 1896. ''Outrageous'', we...

Reviewed in issue 7/1985

Review of Xenakis Metastasis; Pithoprakta; Eonta

Xenakis Metastasis; Pithoprakta; Eonta

During the 1950s and early 1960s‚ Iannis Xenakis represented an alternative avant­garde‚ with a radical approach to form and texture...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Review of Elegy - Songs by Bridge, Lilburn, Ireland, Orr & Finzi

Elegy - Songs by Bridge, Lilburn, Ireland, Orr & Finzi

Fine songs for singing and (many of them) rare songs to hear. At the centre of the programme is the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2000

Review of Rodrigo: Orchestral Works

Rodrigo: Orchestral Works

The enormous success of the Concierto de Aranjuez has exacted a price, the bypassing of Rodrigo's concertos for other instruments,...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1988

Review of Ave Maris Stella Music of Seville Cathedral, 1470-1550

Ave Maris Stella Music of Seville Cathedral, 1470-1550

It has long been known that instrumental participation in the performance of polyphony became increasingly important during the course of...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 9/1996

Review of Angela Gheorghiu - My World

Angela Gheorghiu - My World

This eclectic programme makes a welcome change from recorded recitals devoted to one composer, one genre. Gheorghiu avers, in a...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1998

Review of Beethoven String Quartet; Grosse Fuge (orch arrs)

Beethoven String Quartet; Grosse Fuge (orch arrs)

Whether you enjoy these performances is likely to depend on how you feel about Beethoven quartets played by a string...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Review of Mahler Symphony No 4. Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Mahler Symphony No 4. Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Coming to Davis’s Fourth after the bland anonymity of Boulez’s Seventh (reviewed last month) may have influenced my response, but...

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Review of The Medieval Romantics

The Medieval Romantics

Gothic Voices' latest recording of French songs and motets from 1340 to 1440 is as challenging in its title, ''The...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1992

Review of Del Campo Divina Commedia (La)

Del Campo Divina Commedia (La)

Maybe because there are so few specifically Spanish flavours in his music‚ Conrado del Campo (1878­1953) has been virtually ignored...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002


 

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