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Bartók/Janácek - Works for String Orchestra

Writing of the early Idyll and Suite for strings, annotator John Tyrrell suggests that ‘there is virtually nothing that even...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2000

Mussorgsky Orchestral & Choral Works

This is a well-merited reissue of some Mussorgsky rarities by one of his most intelligent and forceful modern champions, Claudio...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993

Wagner Der Fliegende Halländer

Seven years is the term the Dutchman takes to touch land; seven years is the time it has taken DG...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1998

Messiaen (La) Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ

La Transfiguration is an important turning point in Messiaen’s work‚ at once a sort of summation of what he had...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Braunfels Prinzessin Brambilla

With this flawed, plodding live recording, Marco Polo takes up the cudgels on behalf of the half-Jewish German composer Walter...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2006

Bruckner Masses

New recordings of Bruckner’s Masses are comparatively rare. This disc juxtaposes the early Mass in C major (he wrote it...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 3/2001

Bach Violin Concertos

This issue replicates the programme of Monica Huggett’s Bach concerto disc with Sonnerie (Gaudeamus, 12/06). Both recordings feature period instruments...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2007

Mendelssohn String Quartets 4 & 5

There seems an increasing tendency to record string quartets in church locations, and I can't help but feel that it...

Reviewed in issue 4/1989

Grieg Peer Gynt

Even more than the excellent LP the CD gives beautifully precise placing of instruments, capturing the bloom on the sound...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1984

Peter Hofmann sings Wagner

Parsifal, his son Lohengrin and Siegmund have (I believe) been Peter Hofmann's roles in Wagner's operas on stage, though we...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1984

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