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R. Strauss Elektra

What is undoubtedly one of the greatest performances ever on record sounds even more terrifyingly realistic on CD. There are...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1986

Davies, HW Everyman

Henry Walford Davies’s splendid oratorio was written and first heard in 1904, in the shadow of Elgar’s Gerontius. Yet it...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2005

MacMillan Northern Skies - Works for Cello and Piano.

MacMillan’s two cello sonatas were composed in 1998 and 2000, yet in many ways they are poles apart. The two-movement...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2007

Schoeck Works for Horn and Orchestra

Best known for his wonderful songs, which number over 300, and his operas, Schoeck composed comparatively little pure instrumental music...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1997

Verdi Falstaff

A huge triumph for Glyndebourne, this. But before going on to particularise, perhaps we should tip some of our bouquets...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010

Tomasi Requiem, etc

Inscribed to “all the martyrs of the Resistance and to all those who have died for France”, the 1945 Requiem...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998

German Opera Arias-Kiri Te Kanawa

This makes such a lovely beginning that one is doubly loath to report eventual disappointment. The arias from Der Freischutz...

Reviewed in issue 11/1997

Suk Piano Music, Vol 1

Though he wrote a few large-scale orchestral works‚ Suk was happier with smaller forms‚ and his piano music is some...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2002

Manoury 60th Parallel

By the standards of contemporary opera, 60th Parallel has had good exposure. Commissioned by IRCAM and Paul Sacher (among others)...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2001

Schifrin & Villa-Lobos Guitar Concertos

Villa-Lobos's Concerto is a curious work: five years after it was written (as a Fantasia Concertante) the composer added a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1986

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