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Dohnányi Serenade, Op 10; Martinu String Trio No 2; Schoenberg String Trio, Op 45

An extraordinary piece, Schoenberg’s 1946 String Trio: uncompromising creative rigour applied to genuinely expressive ends. Terse, aphoristic, haunting and disruptive,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2005

Wagner's Heroes

The Arte Nova Voices series introduces a number of up-and-coming singers on early solo CDs. In fact, the first disc...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 4/2001

Handel Giulio Cesare in Egitto

A triumph in the composer’s lifetime, Giulio Cesare remains the public’s favourite Handel opera, with good reason. The characters, most...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2010

Ives Orchestral Works

I have enthused about this conductorless chamber orchestra, especially their outstanding all-Copland release also on DG (see my ''Gramophone Collection'',...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1994

Rameau (Une) Symphonie Imaginaire

Marc Minkowski’s desire to conjure a Rameau symphony is understandable. It is disappointing not to have a contribution to this...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 13/2005

Puccini (La) Rondine

La rondine is one of a musical life’s luxuries. It is like working your way lovingly through an outsize bag...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2010

Schumann Heine Lieder

One of an impressive crop of thirty-something German Lieder singers, Florian Boesch fields a strong, incisive baritone, with a wide...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/2009

Geraldine Farrar in French Opera

This is a lovely, if perhaps predictable, addition to the Prima Voce series, complementing their recital of Farrar in Italian...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Bridge Orchestral Works Vol 3

Two first recordings frame the third volume in Richard Hickox’s Frank Bridge series: the darkly opulent Coronation March of 1911...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2004

Schumann Lieder

Here is proof, if proof were needed, of the growth and variety of Lieder singers in this country. Of course,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1994

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