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Lalo/Saraste Orchestral Works

Warhorses, strong in staying power, are rarely noted also for finesse; and much the same is true of their musical...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1986

Goehr Arianna

The title-page of Arianna describes it as a “lost opera by Monteverdi, composed again by Alexander Goehr”. Precisely. At its...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1998

Gadenstätter Comic Sense

As 38-year-old Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter sees it, ‘Comedy is no laughing matter’. It is from a Rabelaisian perspective of...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2005

From The Street

Ivana Gavric´’s debut disc offered an intense, idiomatic account of Janácek’s In the Mists that made me curious as to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2011

Iglesias, A - Broken Embraces OST

The tone of Pedro Almodóvar’s new film, a heady cocktail of ecstasy and neurosis, has been captured brilliantly by composer...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2009

Stanford Symphony No 5; Irish Rhapsody No 4

Milton inconsiderately failed to follow up L'allegro and Il penseroso with another couple of poems called Il collerico and Il...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1988

Rachmaninov; Rimsky-Korsakov; Stravinsky Piano Works

An 18-year-old Chinese pianist, Wen-Yu Shen, strides into the limelight with a début disc of dazzling assurance and poetic conviction....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2004

Grandi Vespro della Beata Vergine

It is natural that musicians seeking a viable close alternative to Monteverdi’s published Vespers of 1610 should consider appropriate selections...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2011

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4

Iván Fischer nails his very individual colours to the mast from the opening fanfares (horns and bassoons), with tiny rhetorical...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2005

Opera Gala

This is an opera gala with a difference. Instead of cherry-picking the usual highlights, it gives us arias and duets...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

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