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Delius Orchestral Works

Philip Heseltine referred to the First Dance Rhapsody theme as ''bewitching''—bewitching indeed is the way the Welsh oboist leads off...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1992

Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7

No one gets a first prize at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition, as Ayako Uehara did in 2002, without something exceptional...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2008

Anthology of Czech Piano Works, Vol. 8

Suk wrote some 60-odd short piano pieces, many of them collected into groups sharing an experience; about a third of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996

Verdi Macbeth

Lady Macbeth, or ''Lady'' as Verdi so endearingly called her, was a role Callas was born to play. Indeed, there...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1994

Britten Albert Herring

Any performance of Britten’s chamber comedy of 1948 renews wonder at its mastery of fluent, imperceptible through-composition, unerring delineation of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2003

Barber Vanessa

Gian Carlo Menotti took as his starting-point for the libretto of Vanessa the atmosphere of Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales....

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 1/2005

Hindemith conducts Hindemith

At the time of these recordings, made in November 1956, the producer Walter Legge wrote to a friend that ''under...

Reviewed in issue 4/1987

Brahms Orchestral Works

At once a mellow, thoughtful quality is in evidence as Haitink conducts the opening of the Second Symphony. His music-making...

Reviewed in issue 10/1992

Handel Coronation Anthems; Fireworks Music

Handel at his most jubilant here, hymning the glories of Georgian England in his half-official role as composer laureate: the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/1989

Maw Sophie's Choice

Any artwork dealing with Auschwitz is certain to arouse strong feelings, and William Styron’s novel Sophie’s Choice, published in 1979,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2010

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