REVIEWS:
BBC Music (3/98, p.72) - Performance: 3 (out of 5), Sound: 3 (out of 5) - "Liszt's symphonic poems call for performances that blend flamboyance and exalted lyricism - or, in other words, that revel in Romantic empathy....Fortunately, Michael Halász and the New Zealand Symphony offer real performances rather than unimaginative run-throughs....The orchestra...plays with considerable fire in extrovert passages..."

MASSENET: Orchestral Suites Nos. 4 - 7

Classical Music

MASSENET: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1- 3 / Herodiade

HINDEMITH: Mathis der Maler / Symphonic Metamorphosis

REVIEWS:
BBC Music (5/98, p.66) - Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5) - "...the New Zealand-based Tintner uses local forces in a forthright performance which lays emphasis on Bruckner's cross-rhythms. Sound textures are rich, the melodies of the slow movement particularly intense..."

BIZET: Symphony in C Major / Jeux d'enfants