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Régine Crespin

Lucky French television viewers in the 1960s, who were treated to concerts such as those featured on this DVD. Régine...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/2003

Schubert String Quartet No.15

Welcoming the return of the Tokyo's Haydn Op. 50 Quartets on DG (see page 1818) I noted a freshness which...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1990

Hoffmann Liebe und Eifersucht

ETA Hoffmann was not just the author of fantastic tales and the central character of Offenbach’s opera but also –...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2011

Schubert Schwanengesang, D957

Though Schubert wrote the songs published as Schwanengesang in the tenor range, recordings by tenors remain surprisingly rare. You immediately...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2007

Bach Christmas Oratorio

As he did with many of his re-recorded works for the Hanssler Bach Edition, Helmuth Rilling has made new friends,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2001

Bartók/Stravinsky Violin Concertos

As strong a contender as any for top digital rating in this most communicative of twentieth-century concerto masterpieces, forthright and...

Reviewed in issue 5/1998

Wagner Götterdämmerung

As more and more recordings from radio archives are made public we are gradually building a portrait in sound of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994

Music of Gabrieli & His Contemporaries

A few years ago I attended an American Music Library Association convention in Washington DC and one of the live...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1989

Handel Cantatas & Sonatas

No sooner had I reviewed an excellent disc of chamber cantatas by Handel sung by the French countertenor, Gerard Lesne...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1992

Bach Cantatas Nos 54, 82 & 170

Bach obligingly made several versions of his Leipzig cantata Ich habe genug to accommodate not only the baritone voice, with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1996

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