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Operetta Arias & Duets

One’s personal benchmarks are set by the artists of one’s formative years. For me, as for so many others, EMI’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2008

Chopin Piano Works

But for ending with the Fantaisie instead of the Barcarolle, Howard Shelley chooses the same programme here as Pollini did...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1992

Bach/Mozart/Vivaldi Works for Violin & Orchestra

Having heard impressive things of the forthcoming CBS Compact Discs, I had high hopes of the present issue. The transfer...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1983

Lauritz Melchior's 1946-7 MGM Recordings

In the years just after the war, two of the 20th-century’s greatest singers, Pinza and Melchior, moved from the opera...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2001

Heifetz plays Korngold, Rózsa & Waxman

This is a record to have one even more open-mouthed than usual at the pure wizardry of Heifetz. All four...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1989

Liszt arrangements of Schubert Lieder

I never cease to marvel at the sheer number of notes Liszt found time to write down in his 75...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1988

Szymanowski Songs with Orchestra

At long last record companies seem to be turning their attention to Szymanowski's songs. Only last year SJ surveyed a...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1992

Bruckner Symphony No. 7

Bernard Haitink’s 1979 Concertgebouw account of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony was both a change from and an advance on his 1966...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1996

Martinu Violin Concerto No 2

Hot on the heels of the third volume of Hyperion’s series of Martinu’s works for violin and orchestra (7/08) –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2008

Ravel/Shostakovich Piano Trios

Robert de Visee was a contemporary of Marin Marais, Michel-Richard de Lalande and Francois Couperin at the court of Louis...

Reviewed in issue 8/1994

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