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Adam Giselle

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden series of recordings is building up into an impressive collection of the classic popular...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1994

Mozart Edition, Vol.33

La finta giardiniera is moderately amusing and immoderately long. One recording in normal times would be quite enough. But of...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Purcell Phantasies, Ayres & Chaconys

Akin to the pursuits of the Loeki Stardust Quartet of Amsterdam, that most durable of international recorder ensembles, the Flautadors...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2007

C.P.E. Bach Die Israeliten

C. P. E. Bach's oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wuste dates from 1768–9 when he succeeded his godfather, Telemann, as...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1990

Beethoven: Piano Works

Magisterial is the word for Gilels's Eroica Variations. Writing in 1982, RO found it ''a performance of great forcefulness and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1987

20th Century String Quartets

As far as recordings of twentieth-century music are concerned, the Hagen Quartet have not been among the more adventurous ensembles,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991

Mozart Flute Quartets

Opinions will, I suspect, always be divided on the Lieder singing of Mitsuko Shirai. Studying with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and working...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1988

Tracey Chadwell's Song Book

Tracey Chadwell, a soprano of exceptional gifts and intelligence, died in her mid-thirties early in 1996 after a long, courageous...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1998

Pletnev plays Chopin

Given his mercurial personality I suppose it’s to be expected that Mikhail Pletnev will sometimes perplex to the same degree...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/1997

Berlioz/Saint-Saëns Orchestral Works

This particular Berlioz concert has long enjoyed classic status, and many collectors will rejoice at its return to circulation. So,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1993

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