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(The) Whyte Rose

The emphasis here - as usual from the Ferrara Ensemble - is on secular music, but motets are represented as...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2000

Ravel Orchestral Works

''Swirling storm clouds part and... couples are seen dancing'' (Ravel on La valse). In Cleveland, though, the couples don't emerge...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/1992

Songs by Berg, Mahler & Ogermann

Here is another most enterprisingly planned programme, excitingly performed but meanly and inadequately packaged. One can always argue that substance...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1988

Mozart Wind Concertos

For years Mozart's Oboe Concerto masqueraded as a work for flute: he'd transposed it hurriedly to meet a comminssion, and...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1987

Vaughan Williams Job

Now that EMI have distressingly deleted Boult's classic LSO account of VW's visionary score (how long, I wonder, before that...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1993

Wallace Orchestral Works, Volume 2

In November 1996, MS understandably waxed lyrical about a Hyperion release devoted to four fine symphonic poems by William Wallace...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1998

Kuhlau Orchestral works

Outside Denmark, Kuhlau is remembered for his music for the flute, whose repertoire he greatly enriched though he also contributed...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1991

Schubert Mass No 6, D950; Bach Motet, BWV227

Until its activities were disrupted by the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the choir of St Hedwig’s Cathedral...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Mozart (Le) nozze di Figaro

This newest Figaro may not be a hot competitor when there are so many excellent versions in the catalogue, but...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/2004

Wagner Tristan und Isolde

Whatever its drawbacks, this version is infinitely to be preferred to the only DVD alternative listed above, where director Peter...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003

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