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Romberg The Song of the Bell

The name of Andreas Romberg (1767-1821) is not one to set the pulse racing today: a cursory entry in Grove,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1993

Banchieri Pazzia senile - Saviezza giovenile

Simply put, the madrigal comedy was a form in which a sequence of vocal ensemble pieces was linked by a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2000

Elgar/Franck Violin Sonatas

A very grand performance of the Elgar, full of swaggering confidence and interpretative panache. Initially, one fears that Midori’s supreme...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/1997

Organ recital

A surprising record altogether. It is unexpected but marvellous that Michael Woodward has turned his mircrophone in the direction of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1986

Prokofiev Pas d'acier; On the Dnieper

Neither of these works is a neglected masterpiece, though Le pas d'acier ( ''The Step of Steel'') has a kind...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1987

Zelenka Trio Sonatas

Zelenka’s sonatas for two oboes, bassoon and continuo extended the boundaries of baroque oboe writing in much the same way...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1999

Respighi Roman Trilogy

It is good to welcome a South American orchestra in a recording and performance as rich and spectacular as this....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2011

Massenet Werther

If you want to hear just how thoroughly prepared, technically secure, idiomatic and deeply felt French singing could be between...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1990

Fibich Symphonies

Fibich's symphonies find occasional advocates among his own countrymen, and the Supraphon disc listed above by the Brno State Philharmonic...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Music featured in the film 'Shine'

I first encountered Levine conducting this work, one he particularly loves, at the Metropolitan in 1971, and was mightily impressed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1992

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