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Mozart Chamber Orchestral Works

Eine kleine Nachtmusik hardly needs yet another recording, any more than does the early three-movement 'Divertimento' (the title is not...

Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 5/1985

Bizet/Thomas Orchestral Works

A well-drilled and often exciting miscellany, much the sort of thing one expects from Paray's Detroit period. The Carmen Suite...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Schubert Complete Lieder, Vol.18

The halfway point in this invaluable series could not be more appropriately or auspiciously celebrated than with this superlative issue...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Schubert Piano Sonatas

The Hungarian pianist, Jeno Jando, takes his Schubert very seriously. While listening to these two sonatas I was constantly reminded...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1993

Beethoven Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

David Zinman’s account of the Fourth Symphony is fleet and mercurial, as compelling a case as we have for honouring...

Reviewed in issue 2/1999

Cimarosa Requiem

Lured to St Petersburg in December 1787 by the Russian court’s insatiable appetite for Italian opera, Cimarosa immediately found himself...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2010

Ewa Podles sings Handel

Ewa Podles has a large, powerful voice, with an extraordinarily wide compass, and formidable attack and control. Here she takes...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Horowitz Piano Recital (from Piano Rolls)

In the current wave of researches into the archives (so much to be welcomed if we are to establish artistic...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1989

Bartók Bluebeard's Castle

One of the principal differences between Boulez’s latest Bluebeard’s Castle and his 1976 analogue recording for Sony relates to dramatic...

Reviewed in issue 8/1998

Verdi Un ballo in maschera

With this Ballo Karajan has gone out on an operatic high. The closing words of Riccardo/Gustavus might be his epitaph—''Addio...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989

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