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Elisabeth Grümmer - Great Singers of the Century

The glorious Hansel on the classic Karajan recording for EMI of Humperdinck’s opera, a famed Donna Anna, Agathe, Elisabeth, Elsa...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: /2000

Bach Cantatas

This disc completes Christophe Coin’s three-disc survey of Bach cantatas which include an obbligato part for the five-string violoncello piccolo....

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1996

Simpson & Rawsthorne Piano Concertos

Here is one of the most welcome of the BBC’s raids on its own archives. Few top-flight virtuosos did as...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Irmgard Seefried - Lieder Recital

''A thing of beauty is a joy forever.'' Of no singer could that be more truly spoken than of Seefried....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Mozart String Quartets

One of the most striking features of the Franz Schubert Quartet's new issue of Mozart string quartets is their remarkable...

Reviewed in issue 6/1994

Rushton (The) Shops

Compulsive disorders make a fascinating subject for an opera, as Edward Rushton’s The Shops seeks to demonstrate. This revolves around...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 9/2008

Zemlinsky: Es war einmal

Recordings of Zemlinsky's operas have moved on from the powerful double bill of his maturity—Eine florentinische Tragodie and Der Zwerg—to...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1991

Miaskovsky Cello Works

The two sonatas and the Concerto date from very different periods in Miaskovsky's long and prolific career, the First Sonata...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

Scherzi from 17th Century Germany

Reinhard Goebel has put together an imaginative sequence of pieces by Biber, Schmelzer and Walther—all, to a greater or lesser...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1991

Ravel: Piano Works

According to the biographical note Minoru Nojima's career is centred on America and his native Japan rather than on Europe—which...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

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