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Gundula Janowitz - (The) Golden Voice

Like all singers of real character, Janowitz’s voice is instantly recognisable – pure, flexible, almost instrumental, and warmed and lifted...

Reviewed by jjolly in issue: 4/2006

Mozart Idomeneo

For the latest issue in its Opera in English series Chandos turns to Idomeneo, an opera whose lofty mode of...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2004

Wagner Parsifal

This is not merely one of Philips’s Great Recordings but also one of the greatest sets of all time. Every...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Philadelphia Orchestra Centennial Collection

Another scrumptious transatlantic treat, and a victorious collaboration between two of America's most noted historic recording experts. Mark Obert-Thorn served...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2000

Mozart Lieder

Although the jewel-box cover gives Shirai and Protschka equal billing, Shirai only performs four of the collected group of 31...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

Dusapin Requiem(s)

Following his Solo orchestral trilogy of the mid-1990s, Pascal Dusapin’s equally striking choral triptych, drawing on the personal idiom evinced...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2001

Carestini: Story of a Castrato

The name of Giovanni Carestini will mean nothing to most opera lovers; but in his day he was the equal...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 3/2008

Britten War Requiem

This performance is a revelation. Philip Reed, in his authoritative note, points out that, unbeknown to many, Britten and Giulini...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2001

Strauss, R Til Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche; (Ein) Heldenleben

The first surprise with this CD is the sound. The two recordings were made at concerts six years apart and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/2009

Beethoven String Quartets

These are very fine performances. The Petersen Quartet came together in Berlin in 1979, when they were still students, and...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1995

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