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Wagner Opera Excerpts

Here is a welcome souvenir of McIntyre, for his many admirers, in some of his notable Wagnerian assumptions. One of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992

Carter String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 4

The Pacifica Quartet’s follow-up to its disc of Elliott Carter’s First and Fifth Quartets (4/08) finds the composer exploring the...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 4/2009

W. F. Bach Cantatas, Vol.1

These two discs of sacred cantatas by Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, make a valuable contribution towards a fuller understanding...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1994

Carter Chamber Works

This disc underlines the differences between the earlier and later Carters: the neo-classical disciple of Nadia Boulanger in the Wind...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1998

Novak Orchestral Works

A pupil of Dvorak, Viteszlav Novak (1870-1949) left us some fine music, most notably the large-scale cantata The Storm from...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1993

Rore Fifth Book of Madrigals, 1566

Cipriano de Rore's Fifth Book of Madrigals was published posthumously in 1568, three years after the composer's death. Rore had...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/1994

Bach Violin Partitas

Midori Seiler is certainly an outstanding Baroque violinist. Her range of tone and technical command are exceptional and she demonstrates...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2011

Debussy/Ravel Piano Trios

I have an old HMV LP with a youthful looking Andre Previn on the sleeve (9/74 – nla) and coupling...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1995

Percy Grainger: Piano Works

Percy Grainger was not, presumably, the inventor of fresh air, but he certainly brought a lot of that invaluable commodity...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Wagner Götterdämmerung

TDK completes its DVD Ring – but with less than the usual sense of fruition, since Stuttgart Opera fashionably stages...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 9/2004

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