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R. Strauss Orchestral Lieder

It has been infinitely moving to listen to Lucia Popp in Strauss's valedictory songs recorded at a time when she...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994

French Works for Violin and Orchestra

Deutsche Grammophon have now reissued the Perlman version of Lalo's Symphonie espagnole on their mid-price 3-D Classics label and this...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1992

Clarke & Couperin Sacred music

This programme is drawn from two previously issued LPs. The earlier of them contained excerpts from an anthology of sacred...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1986

Bloch/Bruch/Bunch Works for Violin & Orchestra

The 24-year-old Israeli violinist, Ittai Shapira, here makes an impressive recording debut. His technique is immaculate, and his control of...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000

Leonard Bernstein conducts Shostakovich

Bernstein cultists tolerant of low­grade presentation may be pleased to have this further evidence of his early prowess. The Gershwin‚...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2002

Verdi La Traviata

I have always found this a dramatically engrossing account of an opera that, for all its popularity, has always been...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1985

Baroque Vocal Works

Handel went to Italy in order to broaden his musical horizons and his stay there (1706–10) effectively and permanently reshaped...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1988

Grieg Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 3

These are consistently enjoyable performances. The two young Norwegians play with idiomatic style, and give the impression of absorbing and...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1997

Italian Songs

In the Peter Pears Award of 1990 the most lovely singing of all came in a Bellini aria in which...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

Haydn String Quartets

The Quartet, Op. 33 No. 4 has the distinction of being the only one after the Op. 17 set to...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1991

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