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Inflation-busting Acte Préalable
MusicWeb International is still selling nearly 300 discs on the Polish Acte Préalable label at the discounted price of £12 post free. See the listings here. Seven new titles have been added.
Newest Reviews
Leighton: Every Living Creature (SOMM Recordings)
A valuable collection of Leighton’s choral music, with several first recordings [SB]
Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky: Romances (Pentatone)
An attractive selection from this marvellous repertoire, very well performed [RWe]
Kristina Marinova (piano) Loves Me Not (Navona)
A low key and reflective recital that mostly satisfies [RCh]
Giordano: Fedora (Malibran-Music)
A powerful, idiomatic vintage recording of an unjustly neglected opera with some fascinating bonuses [RMo]
Bolcom: The Complete Cabaret Songs (Rattle)
Fascinating music from the borderland between classical modernism and popular idioms [GF]
Wagner: Orchestral Music (Beulah)
Neglected Gallic Wagner from Detroit proves a winner [DMD]
Saint-Saëns: Chamber Works (Apex)
(Déjà Review) Simply wonderful chamber works superbly performed [MC]
Simpson: Symphony 11 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion’s best [HC]
Recent ArticlesView All
Editing Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony
An interview with Dr Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs by Len Denham
Site Updates
- A substantial update has been made to the Cello Concerto Project
- Discographies and/or Review Indexes for Britten, Finzi, Hummel, Rubbra and Vaughan Williams have been moved to the new site (see Resources)
- Migration of the Label Index has now been completed
- Presto Music top sellers and MWI’s most-read reviews
- The National Discographies compiled by Michael Herman, and maintained by Stephen Ellis, are being migrated to the new site, including updates.
- Articles on the tenor Eugene Conley have been added to the Charles Hooey Collection on this site
- Migration of the Masterwork Index has more than 75 entries
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