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Wagner Das Rheingold

Das Rheingold is possibly the most telling music drama, as distinct from opera, ever composed. Wagner's ability to provide the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1989

Rautavaara Sacred Works for Mixed Chorus

In those innocent days, long before Angels and marketing had ever been thought of, Einojuhani Rautavaara was quietly and industriously...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1999

Korngold Symphonic Serenade; Griffes Roman Sketches

Charles Tomlinson Griffes's life was cut brutally short in 1920 at the age of only 35. As a kind of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/2007

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4. Nutcracker (excs)

Here is another very happy marriage resulting from EMI's Beecham collaboration with CBS. The Nutcracker Suite was recorded by Philips...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

La Bonne Chanson

Although she has recorded Gluck’s Orphee (EMI, 2/90), Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust (Philips, 3/90 and DG – to be released)...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/1998

Gershwin Piano Concerto; Rhapsody in Blue; Cuban Overture

It’s a pity that this disc arrived after my “Collection” survey of the Concerto (6/07). It would have come as...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2007

Brahms Symphony No 1; Tragic Overture

There are two kinds of LSO Live release: those that preserve a performance which genuinely merits a place in the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2004

Stainer The Crucifixion

It is easy to dismiss Stainer’s Crucifixion as the epitome of English musical disfunctionality in the nineteenth century. Yet, over...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/1997

Verdi Don Carlo

The superlative talents assembled nere are probably a little too heterogeneous for an ideal performance, even if all were ideally...

Reviewed in issue 12/1988

Homage to Diaghilev

The current revival of interest in the music of Igor Markevitch has been accompanied by a welcome, if oddly planned,...

Reviewed in issue 12/1997

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