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French Opera Arias

This CD gives further evidence (pace Andre Tubeuf on page 176) that, if opera and record companies would open their...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1990

Within a Dream

“A Celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox (1948-2008)” is how Chandos aptly describe this generous overview of an endearingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2010

Claudio Abbado in Rehersal

What we have here is a German film of Abbado preparing two performances of the Requiem at Milan in 1985....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

Bax Tone Poems Vol 2

Not many composers can be more crucially made or marred by the performer than Bax. I have seen The Tale...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1985

Dickinson Piano Concerto; Outcry; Organ

The second disc listed above contains Stevie Smith’s verses set to the tunes she had in her head when she...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2001

Saxophone and Piano Works

A very varied programme, and a very exploratory one: not all saxophone players, even, are likely to be already familiar...

Reviewed in issue 5/1992

Mirror of Eternity

The British-trained Lebanese flautist Wissam Boustany impressively tackles 20th-century concertos ‘shaped, inspired or influenced by the spirit of angst that...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2005

Wagner e Venezia

Wagner often visited Venice, completed Tristan there and with mixed feelings heard his music played by street musicians and cafe...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1998

Peri il Zazzerino

This collection focuses on Peri’s role in shaping the new manner of solo singing that arose in Florence at the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/1999

Bach Cantatas, Volume 7

The seventh volume of Ton Koopman’s projected complete cantata survey contains pieces which Bach performed at Leipzig in 1723 and...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998

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