Berlioz: Le Damnation de Faust – review

Margiono/Cole/Quasthoff/Huijpen/Netherlands Radio Choir and PO/Haitink (Challenge Classics, two CDs)Whatever the impact of the recent round of Arts Council cuts, British music has yet to encounter any threat on the scale of that currently faced by music in the Netherlands, where the government has announced plans to cut funding to the Netherlands Broadcasting Music Centre, together with its resident groups, including the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Chamber Philharmonic and Choir. Among thos...

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