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Beethoven Fidelio

Davis’s new version of Fidelio commends itself in many ways. The recording is probably as clear and wide-ranging as that...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1996

Mozart Wind Concertos

These concertos for bassoon, flute and oboe are relatively early works, and although the four for horn date from Mozart's...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1994

Vasks Chamber Works

The most inventive works amongst these chamber pieces by Vasks (b.1946) are the solo items, Landscape with Birds, for flute...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Winter Lullabies

Centring on Howard Goodall's sequence for boys' voices and harp, Stephen Darlington here offers a beautifully sung disc. Winter Lullabies...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2006

Strauss, R Intermezzo

A curio or a godsend? The answer comes down to two factors: How one values this set’s star, Elisabeth Söderström,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 9/2011

Wagner Overtures & Preludes

There is something about Wagner orchestral anthologies that, even today, prompts in me a certain strain of primal excitement –...

Reviewed in issue 4/1996

Andrea Rost: Le delizie dell'amor

Rost comes with good credentials; she has already won her spurs at the Vienna State Opera, La Scala and Covent...

Reviewed in issue 1/1998

Brahms arr Lazic Piano Concerto No 3

So is this where we’re going…record all the great masterpieces umpteen times, then rewrite them for different instruments and start...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2010

Maria Callas: Popular Music from TV, Film and Opera

After the recent auction of Callas’s personal effects in Paris these new compilations of her recordings are topical. The single...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2000

Grunwald 1410-2010

The battle of Grunwald (also known as the Battle of Zalgiris or First Battle of Tannenberg to distinguish it from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2011

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