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Mozart Horn Concertos; Horn Quintet

At last a clutch of Mozart horn concertos for our decade and, I suspect, for quite a bit longer as...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1997

Honegger Symphony No 3; Poulenc Gloria

The booklet opens with a nice touch, giving the complete text of the Gloria ahead of Mark van Dongen's notes....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2006

Pitts Seven Letters & other Sacred Choral Works

The Amen motet, two separate four-part groups of singers sharing the single word for almost nine minutes, comes at the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2005

Offenbach (La) Vie Parisienne

This 1991 film of Offenbach’s operetta derives from a Lyon Opéra production screened in France at Christmas that year. The...

Reviewed in issue 7/2002

M-A. Charpentier Medée

The choice of items here is promising, with two by Kalman and one by Zeller tricking out the generous and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1999

Sibelius Spirit of Nature

Osmo Vänskä’s latest Sibelius survey kicks off with the composer’s two earliest surviving orchestral efforts from 1890-91, written while he...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2006

Alessandra Marc Opera Recital

Among many enthusiastic comments quoted in the booklet which accompanies this disc there is one by Andrew Porter, who, having...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Weill Songs

Kurt Weill wrote very few solo songs, Lieder or chansons; nearly all his vocal music is intended to be performed...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/1992

Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne; Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras 5

Like JBS, who reviewed the LP of this issue, I find the second offering of Canteloube less palatable than the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1984

Schumann Piano Quartets

The special interest here is the ''world premiere recording'' of Schumann's first Piano Quartet in C minor, completed in March,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1993

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