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Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

This new project continues the work of rediscovering the “original” Symphonie fantastique started by the records made since 1988 by...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2010

Gottschalk Complete Orchestral Works

This is a companion-cum-follow-up to a Naxos disc issued in 2000 from the same Hot Springs forces also under the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2008

Strauss, R Lieder

Strauss singing doesn’t come much better than this. I suspect that the composer him­self‚ with his love of the soprano...

Reviewed in issue 4/2002

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1

Oscar Shumsky's London recital in October last year received enthusiastic critical acclaim, and only last month MH wrote in glowing...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 9/1983

Griffes Goddess of the Moon - chamber works

Although Griffes’s superb Piano Sonata has been rather better served elsewhere, this well-prepared anthology does usefully expand our appreciation of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1998

Mozart: Concert and Operatic Arias

I do not feel that Erato have been so successful in capturing one of our best-loved voices as have others...

Reviewed in issue 2/1986

Strauss, R Josephslegende

Richard Strauss’s Josephslegende (1914) is a truly extraordinary work. It was written for Diaghilev, who wanted something sensational to follow...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2007

Byrd Cantiones Sacrae

The eighth volume of ASV’s Byrd Edition presents Propers for Candlemas (also known as the ‘Feast of the Purification’), and...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/2003

Close Encounters with Great Singers - Mirella Freni

Benjamin Britten once uttered words to the effect, ‘Thank goodness, I’m not one of those musicians who talks’. Nowadays, it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2004

Beethoven Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus

Prometheus, who defied the gods by stealing fire from Heaven and warming his clay figures into men, was a powerful...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1994

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