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Cimarosa Il Matrimonio Segreto

Consider the stamina shown just over 200 years ago in Vienna, when after listening to a three-hour opera (presumably plus...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1997

Franck Orchestral Works

François-Xavier Roth, not this time with his ‘period’ ensemble Les Siècles but with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, conducts...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2011

Catalani La Wally

For its historical importance (an off-putting phrase, but true, I believe) as well as its intrinsic merits and the peach...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990

Puccini Turandot

For his first venture into opera, Chinese film director Chen Kaige (most famous for Farewell My Concubine) mounted this production...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 3/2010

Mozart Divertimentos, K138 & K247

Both these divertimentos are convincingly played here as chamber works, with only one instrumentalist to each part. The F major,...

Reviewed in issue 1/1986

Schumann: Piano Works

Though Dalberto has competition in the two bigger works in the Blumenstuck the CD field is all his own. Like...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988

Janácek (5) Operas; Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba

No one who heard young Charlie Mackerras conduct Kát’a Kabanová at Sadler’s Wells in 1951 is likely to have forgotten...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2005

Cancionero - Music for the Spanish Court

I have waited for some time for this recording of early Renaissance Spanish music‚ having heard the Dufay Collective perform...

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Fischer-Dieskau - Opera Scenes 1965-1976

This won’t do for the all-or-nothing people, those who complain of bleeding chunks and defend the inviolable integrity of an...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

Bach Family: Trio Sonatas

Bach had a large family (as was obviously known to the famous O-level candidate who was inspired to write ''Bach...

Reviewed in issue 7/1984

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