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Songs on Poems by Pierre de Ronsard

It has been far too easy in the past to see French chanson composers in the second half of the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1995

Puccini La Bohème

A curious mixture of a performance. It is presumably based on a production by the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1990

Regina Resnik Operatic Arias

Regina Resnik made her Covent Garden debut as Carmen in 1957, and four years later recorded the role for Decca....

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1993

Bantock: Orchestral Works

No one can complain that Czechoslovakia and Marco Polo are failing to make a significant contribution to the recording of...

Reviewed in issue 10/1990

Andrés Segovia in Portrait

In Segovia at Los Olivos, the guitarist relates how he first entered Manuel Ramírez’s shop, extravagantly dressed and wielding a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 2/2006

Beethoven/Mendelssohn/Schumann Works for Viola & Piano

Though a version of Mendelssohn’s C minor Sonata for viola and piano (from Koch and Keller) is still listed in...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 13/1997

Works for Two Pianos/Piano Duet

This is a delightful record. Almost all these pieces are known best as orchestral music, but here they scintillate in...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1993

Bach Brandenburg Concertos

When Trevor Pinnock first recorded the Brandenburgs with the English Concert for DG Archiv in 1982, period performances of these...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2008

Litolff Concertos Symphoniques Nos. 3 and 5

Volume 26 in Hyperion’s engrossing if uneven ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series completes Peter Donohoe’s magisterial survey of Litolff’s five piano...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Invitation to the Seraglio

There was I, in a review of a CD called ‘East Meets West’ (Warner Classics, 8/04), citing Mozart’s flirtation with...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 10/2004

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