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Wagner (Der) Ring des Nibelungen

This new cycle, Opus Arte’s first CD release, was assembled from performances of the current Bayreuth stage production recorded during...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 1/2010

Stanley Organ Voluntaries

The Thomas Thamar organ in Framlingham, formerly in Pembroke College, Cambridge, was built in 1674, and all the Great registers...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1983

Bernstein The Final Concert

While for obvious reasons this wasn't billed as ''The Final Concert'' at the time, there must have been quite a...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1992

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

These recordings appeared in impeccable French LP transfers two years ago and their transfer to the new medium is most...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1987

Harriet Cohen plays Bax

Completed in April 1930, Bax’s Winter Legends, a large-scale sinfonia concertante for piano and orchestra containing some of his most...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2005

Brahms String Quartet No 3; String Quintet No 1

The Shanghai Quartet’s rich, warm, beautifully blended sound is a real asset in Brahms, as is the impressive command, all...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/1998

Beauty and the Beast Original London Cast

Billed as the most expensive musical to hit London’s West End (with costs exceeding £10 million) Disney’s Beauty and the...

Reviewed by mp kennedy in issue: 13/1997

Shostakovich The Gadfly

A ''muted welcome'' was all I could give Serebrier's RCA disc. Now it is time for the full fanfare treatment...

Reviewed in issue 4/1989

Tchaikovsky Ballet & Orchestral Works

It was Dorati who made the pioneering first complete recording of The Nutcracker, also for Mercury, in 1953. This is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992

Offenbach Vert-Vert

It was the enthusiastic reception of its “Entre nous” set of rare Offenbach excerpts (11/07) that persuaded Opera Rara to...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2010

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