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Romancing Rebellion - 1798 and the Songs of Thomas Moore

In June 1798 the town of Wexford declared itself a republic, and on May 30th, 1998, the rebellion of that...

Reviewed in issue 8/1999

Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4

Something about the key of D major seems to trigger off Mitsuko Uchida's adrenalin. The energy level in the Rondo...

Reviewed in issue 7/1987

Lorentzen A Wondrous Love Story

Lorentzen’s Tristan Variations is an intriguing concept that manifestly fails to deliver. Having reduced his real life/mythical examples to the...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1998

Music for Brass and Soprano

Anyone looking at the sleeve who thinks Elisabeth Soderstrom is going to give a recital upon the bass tuba will...

Reviewed in issue 10/1985

R. Strauss Lieder

A great deal of intelligence is shown here in surmounting the fact that Hendricks simply doesn't have the wherewithal to...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991

MacMillan The Berserking

Today’s New Music scene is said to be pluralistic: everything is permitted; style is no longer a moral issue. But...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1996

Gubaidulina Sieben Worte; Zehn Präludien; De Profundis

Recordings of Sofia Gubaidulina’s music differ markedly as to presentation. Elsbeth Moser and Boris Pergamenschikov interpret Seven Last Words‚ meditations...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/2002

Rameau Naïs

It is only a short while since I reviewed a suite of dances from Rameau's opera, Nais. Now, hard on...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1995

Shostakovich Symphonies Nos 2 and 5

Place Eliahu Inbal's soft-grained account of the Fifth Symphony beside Kurt Sanderling's epic interpretation on Berlin Classics Eterna and its...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

Purcell: Theatre Music Volume 8

This enchanting record consists of songs and duets from Restoration plays, almost all of them on various aspects of love....

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

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