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Review of Rossini Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra; Variations

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

Review of A Musicall Dreame

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

Review of Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream

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

Review of Ippolitov-Ivanov: Orchestral works

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

Review of Wagner The Rhinegold

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

Review of Haydn String Quartets

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

Review of Lunéville Organ

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

Review of Massenet Hérodiade

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

Review of Sibelius Orchestral Works

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

Review of Wagner Siegfried

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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