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Pavarotti 60th Birthday Release

Although the event probably lives in the memory as the Pavarotti Sixtieth Birthday Party, it was actually a gala to...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 4

On this penultimate disc of their Mozart cycle Lonquich and Zimmermann couple three of the sonatas composed during the fateful...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1991

Vittorio Grigolo - (The) Italian Tenor

An “Italian” tenor from Italy is nowadays something of a rarity, though the advent of one as good as this...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2010

Helen Traubel & Lauritz Melchoir

Melchior’s Columbia recordings tend to be forgotten (there were excerpts from Otello too), and this issue brings them to notice....

Reviewed in issue 10/1999

Vocal and Orchestral Works

An agreeably varied programme, representing both vocal and instrumental music of compatible styles. Two unifying factors, though, underlie the whole...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Missa Gotica

Ensemble Organum’s style of performance is well known enough – and has spawned sufficient emulators – no longer to need...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/2010

Prokofiev & Schubert Cello Sonatas

Ofra Harnoy in her sixth record for RCA offers an unusual but attractive coupling of a Schubert sonata that always...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1989

Endless Pleasure

This unimaginative programme of Purcell songs and Handel arias is titled “Endless Pleasure”, but some may find that ironic. To...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2008

Puccini La Fanciulla del West

This performance was recorded in a theatre (the Alte Oper in Frankfurt) but there are no stage noises or much...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1994

Rossini Stabat Mater

We have down the years been rather clutching at straws where recordings of Rossini’s two great choral works are concerned....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2011

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