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Bream plays Bach Lute Works

The way of playing Bach does not stand still; unfolding scholarship and changing tastes ensure constant shifts of what one...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1986

Kiri Te Kanawa Italian Opera Arias

What was wanted here was a joker who would rush into the studio every now and then shouting ''Fire!''. Or...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

Rossini - (Un) Rendez-vous

Italian mezzo Anna Bonitatibus has delighted Covent Garden audiences as Medoro in Handel’s Orlando and as a smouldering Cherubino in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2011

Sharon Kam - Souvenirs

Sharon Kam’s stylishly simple melodic line sings beguilingly throughout this kaleidoscopically varied programme. The playing, polished, sinuously cool in Massenet,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2009

Nono Al gran solo carico d'amore

Al gran sole carico d’amore is the culmination of the overtly political phase in Nono’s output‚ begun with his previous...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Schubert Impromptus

This is something very special indeed. Maria Joao Pires’s two-disc set of Schubert’s Impromptus, significantly dedicated to Sviatoslav Richter, contains...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1998

Shchetynsky Chamber Works

Oleksandr Shchetynsky (spelt Chtchetinsky on the CD) was born and trained in Kharkiv, where he has been active for most...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2003

Lachner Symphony No 5

Schumann reserves some of his purest and most refined vitriol for this symphony: ''without style... a mixture of German, Italian...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1994

Donizetti Maria Stuarda

How this opera grows in the affections. And how it strengthens the larger, ever-deepening appreciation not merely of Donizetti's work...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

Bruckner Symphony No 2

Here is a tangled web, indeed. Bruckner's intense and radiant Second Symphony in a trio of performances each of which...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1989

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