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Rossini Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra; Variations

A triangular flash in the top left­hand corner of the cover of this CD carries the somewhat brazen statement ‘Rossini’s...

Reviewed in issue 10/2002

A Musicall Dreame

Robert Jones's Fourth Booke of Ayres of 1609 is headed ''A Musicall Dreame'', and this is the title for the...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/1990

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream

This recording makes an unusual migration from EMI's Eminence label to the slightly cheaper CfP series. Litton includes the linking...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Ippolitov-Ivanov: Orchestral works

Tchaikovsky took a friendly interest in the young Ippolitov-Ivanov, who had for some years been a pupil of rimsky-Korsakov adn...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985

Wagner The Rhinegold

This reissue (as in the case of the other operas in this series) brought back many happy memories of watching...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992

Haydn String Quartets

I enjoyed these discs with more provisos than in most of the previous issues in the Kodaly's evolving Haydn cycle....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1994

Lunéville Organ

Lavish packaging in the shape of a richly illustrated book detailing the history and design of the 1751 Dupont organ...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2011

Massenet Hérodiade

Opera librettos, like Hollywood films, are notoriously indifferent to the true representation of historical events and cavalier in their treatment...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1986

Sibelius Orchestral Works

Under 45 minutes of music here, but few customers should complain as they listen to such powerful performances of four...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Wagner Siegfried

Comfortably recorded with a natural pit/stage balance – as were its predecessors in Hamburg’s unfolding live Ring (8/09, 3/10) –...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 13/2011

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