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Vaughan Williams (The) Poisoned Kiss

The Poisoned Kiss is Vaughan Williams’s forgotten opera: this is the first complete recording. It was written in the late...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2004

Tippett Symphony No 4. Byzantium

For its length (27 minutes) Byzantium is Tippett's most image-rich score to date. Of course the uncheckable teeming of images...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1993

Bantock Sappho & Sapphic Poem

This really is most welcome. In a fascinating booklet-essay, Lewis Foreman relates how, between the years 1900 and 1914, Bantock...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1997

Bellini Norma

For a generation of opera-goers, Callas was Norma, and nobody since has come near challenging her hegemony in a role...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1986

Debussy Suite Bergamasque; Images; Children's Corner.

Reading Harmonia Mundi’s accompanying sleeve, expectations are raised high. Alain Planès’s 1902 Blüthner instrument has a ‘warm and romantic tone’...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2006

John Adams Hoodoo Zephyr

This is music from a journey. Equally, it is music for a journey and one which notably depicts phases of...

Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 4/1994

Toscanini Collection, Vol.45

A mixed bag. The 1939 Egmont is given a magnificently fiery, ardent performance, but the 1945 Leonore No. 3 is...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Daubney October Roses - Song Recital

Brian Blyth Daubney is the composer of some 200 songs, and of the 30 recorded here, 18 are said to...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2006

Liszt Works for Violin and Piano Vol 2

Liszt’s relatively small output of chamber music is, like the majority of what he wrote, rarely programmed in the concert...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2011

Schubert: Works for Violin and Piano

This could be termed 'the record of the concert' because this duo played precisely these works in the same order...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989

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