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Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, Volume 14

The producers are not so rash or, maybe, so publicity-minded, as to claim premiere recordings here, but they could probably...

Reviewed in issue 13/1998

Mozart Symphonies 36 & 38

What is it that makes the art of Mozart interpretation such a minefield? I have puzzled over this for many...

Reviewed in issue 7/1986

Berg Wozzeck

This is very close to what it must be like to hear Wozzeck from the prompter's box: everything in close-up,...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1994

Rossini Piano Works, Vol.1

The piano music Rossini wrote for the celebrated Saturday Soirees which he and his second wife, Olympe Pelissier, hosted during...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2000

Vienna - Operetta Arias

Julia Migenes's natural feeling for Viennese operetta has already been well demonstrated in a 1978 Acanta recital emanating from Cologne...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1994

Camilleri Piano Concertos

Charles Camilleri is a Maltese composer now in his early sixties. These three concertos span the greater part of his...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1994

Tippett King Priam

King Priam was a great shock when it was first performed in 1962. In place of the ecstatic lyrical warmth...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1996

Field Complete Piano Concertos

“Born in Ireland in 1782”, reads John Field’s headstone, “Dead in Moscow in 1837.” There is little of Moscow in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2010

Al Ayre Espanol - Barroco Español, Vol 4

This is the fifth recording in the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi series dedicated to Spanish baroque music by Al Ayre Espanol,...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 13/1999

Thalberg Grand Concerto

We have had some interesting and valuable additions to the piano repertoire via Naxos’s Romantic Piano Concerto series, but Sigismond...

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 7/2000

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