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Favourite Soprano Arias

Arrivals from Naxos are making themselves most welcome, and not merely for the super-bargain price. A few months ago we...

Reviewed in issue 2/1993

Harmoniemusik after Mozart and Rossini

Here are more bandstand selections from popular operas, the sort of music that military bands played in the early part...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1994

Shostakovich (The) Nose; (The) Gambler

We have the collapse of the Soviet Union to thank for the fact that Gennady Rozhdestvensky’s quixotic podium antics are...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2007

Carols from Ampleforth

Here is a programme of carols as traditional as turkey and plum pudding, and as wholesome. You don’t have to...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Berlioz Requiem & Te Deum

The similarities between these two great choral works – ‘the monumental style, the blend of austerity and brilliance’, to quote...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Vienna Philharmonic 1957-63

This nattily produced four­CD hardback ‘book’ ‘Vienna Philharmonic 1957­1963’ is a small time capsule. As Tim Page writes in his...

Reviewed in issue 1/2002

Beyond All Mortal Dreams

If this is a representative cross-section of unaccompanied American choral music since the Second World War, it shows a genre...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2011

Vivaldi Concerti & Sinfonie per Archi

This collection draws from Vivaldi’s “Concerti per archi”, concertos for strings and continuo without the flamboyant writing for solo instruments...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2006

Borodin Symphony No 2

Keen collectors may have acquired these off-air recordings in previous, more or less illicit incarnations but, in placing them back...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2005

Bach Two-part & Three-part Inventions

Except for the recording by Kenneth Gilbert (DG 415 112-1AH) reviewed last month, there is not a single current version...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1985

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