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Bretón (La) Verbena de la Paloma

Like Arthur Sullivan, Tomás Bretón (1850-1923) was a cultured musician who composed symphonic and operatic works but found his greatest...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/2003

R. Strauss Joesphslegende

Slowly but surely, all Strauss's works are being recorded: the major and shocking omission is still the opera Die Liebel...

Reviewed in issue 6/1988

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

It grieves me to report that what may well be the last new recording by Fassbaender, because of her retirement,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

Billone 1 + 1 = 1

Little of Pierluigi Billone’s music has found its way onto CD, but what has (including a previous monograph disc for...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2007

Sorabji Concerto per suonare da me solo

Altarus’s odyssey through the music of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji continues with another first. Composed in 1946, the Concerto per suonare...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2007

Mozart Symphonies

There is little I need add to my enthusiastic review of the LP of this fine issue in Tate's Mozart...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1986

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

Kitaienko's Petrushka has a definite turn-of-the-century warmth and weight, colour and spectacle (surprisingly so as he used the pared down,...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1994

The Beautiful Voice

Sweet tooth, prepare for action. What does Lamb say in his Chapter on Ears? Something about piling honey upon sugar...

Reviewed in issue 3/1998

Wagner Orchestral Music from the Operas

HMV issued much the same compilation from Karajan and the BPO in the mid-1970s (ASD3130, 12/75—nla), the only difference being...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1985

McCabe: Vocal and Orchestral Works

John McCabe has perhaps not had the general acceptance, as a composer, that I think his music deserves. It is...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

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