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Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

The orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition seems to have stimulated quite a number of musicians. Ravel’s scoring remains...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1997

Debussy Orchestral Works

The death of Guido Cantelli in an air crash at the age of 36 in 1956 was one of the...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Schoenberg Moses und Aron

“Serial Verdi” - a would-be crushing put-down aimed at Schoenberg's 12-note opera from the post-war avant-garde - might actually be...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2007

Verdi Macbeth

Four years ago, when the EMI version appeared on two CDs at mid price, I suggested that, to be competitive,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1997

Mozart Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 9

Modern instruments they may be but horns in B flat alto, exultant in the first movement of K238, signal an...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2011

Sullivan Sesquicentennial Issue, Vol 2

Walter Passmore and Charles Workman are celebrated not only as Gilbert and Sullivan creators (both were in the first production...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1996

Mozart Don Giovanni

The merits of live versus studio recording of opera have been much debated. On the face of it, a recording...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1997

Holbrooke Chamber Works

Like MS (reviewing the previous Marco Polo issue, 12/95), I have found that my (albeit few) previous encounters with Joseph...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1996

Mozart Horn concertos; Adagio & Fugue, K546

The Mozart horn concertos are already very adequately represented in the catalogue; now come three more sets and not suprisingly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1987

Mozart Piano Sonatas

I don’t know who first called the Suite in C ‘in the style of Handel’; it certainly wasn’t Mozart, nor...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/2004

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