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Loewe: Lieder

Once upon a time (so runs the argument of Loewe's Die Heinzelmannchen) life was so much earsier in Cologne than...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1986

Vivaldi Four Seasons

This was one of two recordings through which I first became familiar with Vivaldi's Four Seasons during the mid 1950s—the...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1988

The Romantic Muse English Music in the Time of Beethoven

An Englishman, after all, could not have written the Eroica or the Ode to Joy. So what was he writing...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1995

Music for String Orchestra

This 14-piece string orchestra from Andorra, which made its debut only four years ago, has usefully devoted its first Nimbus...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1997

Short Stories

The gulf between Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux (Ugorski’s last DG offering, 5/94) and this programme of ‘short stories’ – or, more...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1996

Bax Symphonic Poems

A good many readers will, I suspect, already have acquired these performances on their initial appearance as couplings on David...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2005

Vivaldi & Boccherini Cello Concertos

The Vivaldi concertos are all old friends and you may meet them elsewhere on record, but for the most part...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1986

Strauss, R (Der) Rosenkavalier

It’s taken over 35 years (and the pirates and DVDs have got there first, nine times and counting as of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 4/2009

Twentieth-Century Guitar Music

Two of the most prestigious guitar competitions in the world are those held in Paris (annual) and Toronto (trienniel); Marcelo...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1987

Verdi Requiem; Sacred Pieces

As on every other occasion when I have had to listen to it, I soon lost patience with Reiner’s wooden,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1996

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