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Mozart Orchestral Works

Like most of the opera sets in the Naxos Historical series, this Toscanini issue comes from a broadcast source, a...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998

Spanish Guitar Works

Few guitarists have made more records and given more recitals around the world than Ernesto Bitetti, Argentine by birth but...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1991

Tippett A Child of Our Time etc

While the sound of Sir John Pritchard's 30-year-old account of Tippett's early oratorio has not been miraculously transformed by transfer...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1989

Mozart Rondo. Violin Sonatas

The 12-year-old Maria-Elisabeth Lott is clearly a remarkable talent. She was chosen from 30 applicants for the honour of playing...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2000

English Chamber Music

We have come to expect recorded perfection from Chandos and if they occasionally miss that target they are often still...

Reviewed in issue 7/1987

Pavel Lisitian (born 1911)

Even today the true stature of Lisitsian has not been fully acknowledged (for instance he doesn't get a mention even...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993

Wetz Symphony No. 3

Reviewing Richard Wetz’s Second Symphony (9/00), Andrew Achenbach was intrigued by its style (‘a hybrid of Bruckner and Liszt’) but...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Baroque Concertos

The Durante and the Double Harpsichord Concerto ''have never been recorded before'', so we are told by an annotator who...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1986

Mozart Don Giovanni

This must be the most ‘transferred’ set in recording history. Now, through the magic of Ward Marston, master of restoration,...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

Korngold (The) Sea Hawk

Hard on the heels of William Stromberg’s admirable Naxos set (9/07) of Korngold’s towering score for The Sea Hawk (1940)...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2008

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