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There is a reason why “The Golden Age of Singing” is so named here… [RMo]

by Ralph Moore

A dull, turgid account of Brahms’ Requiem which fails to engage the listener’s interest [RMo]

An attractive collection of Puccini’s non-operatic juvenilia, performed in spirited fashion [RMo]

Good but hardly essential accounts of music for which we already have so many great recordings [RMo]

by Ralph Moore

(Déjà Review) A bridge too far, too soon [RMo]

An impressive brace of Strauss tone poems of interesting provenance [RMo]

Another fine account of Mahler‘s Tenth which will appeal to those who want a more direct, driven and cohesive concept [RMo]

Another top echelon recording of the third version of Cooke’s reconstruction of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony [RMo]

An urgent, highly competent reading, but coarse and lacking heart [RMo]

A voyage of discovery into contrasting worlds of sound [RMo]

Some byways in recordings of Mahler’s Tenth [RMo]

by Ralph Moore

A justly admired – indeed, near-perfect – account of Deryck Cooke’s third version of his completion of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony [RMo]

Brilliant, driven performances which hardly show their age in Pristine’s remastering [RMo]

A ‘Trout’ to challenge classic versions, exhibiting a welcome sense of forward drive, paired with a Hummel novelty [RMo]

A classic recording, with a great conductor and stellar singers, gets the Pristine treatment [RMo]

An intriguing piece of cross-cultural programming combining an energised performance of Mozart’s Requiem with an exotic new work [RMo]

Heavily derivative of its Wagnerian models, Chausson’s sole opera intermittently impresses but is overlong and somehow remains unmemorable [RMo]

A generously filled recording which has deservedly become a classic [RMo]

A highly desirable compilation of the some of the best music of its type and era, undemanding but wholly entertaining [RMo]

A carefully devised programme enabling us to understand how Italian polychoral works so heavily influenced Charpentier’s expansive, insistent idiom [RMo]

A re-issue of highly individual, grand and emphatic, even quirky, renderings of two great Mahler symphonies in excellent sound [RMo]