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SAINT-SAËNS Les Barbares

Of Saint-Saëns’s 12 operas, only the second, Samson et Dalila, is well known. Now, thanks to the enterprise of the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2015

REBEL Ulysee

If the name Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747) rings any bells, it is probably as the composer of a chamber work, Les...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2015

MILHAUD L’Orestie d’Eschyle

For those who mainly know Milhaud for his exotic, jazzy, congenial orchestral suites, his terse string quartets and eye-crossing productivity...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015

HANDEL Rodelinda

This production is something of a family affair because the stage director is the conductor’s son. Set in a revolving...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

BRAUNFELS Verkündigung

With this release, Annunciation (1934 37) achieves its second commercial CD recording. Check out Michael Oliver’s July 1994 Gramophone review...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2015

Road Trip

The imaginative, bright young resident ensemble at London’s Kings Place launch their Warner Classics contract with what we used to...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2015

MCCABE; PRITCHARD; SAXTON Trumpet Concertos

Four vibrant, attractive concertos – three written within the past three years – by three of Britain’s brightest and best,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

Music for Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock understood the value of music and its impact on audiences. He omitted Bernard Herrmann’s searing score for Psycho (1960)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015

British String Concertos

The release of this four-CD set of works for solo string instruments and orchestra pays tribute, as does the recently...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2015

ELGAR; BRITTEN; PÁLSSON Violin Concertos

A product of the Reykjavík Music School, Eastman School of Music, Royal College of Music and Juilliard School, Guðný Gumundsdóttir...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015

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