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Zemlinsky Der König Kandaules

An issue of outstanding importance. King Candaules, based on a play by Andre Gide, is Zemlinsky’s last opera, written during...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1997

Falla Vocal & Orchestral Works

Interest here is likely to centre on the hitherto unrecorded, and still unpublished, incidental music Falla wrote in 1927 for...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1993

Rostropovich conducts Shostakovich

Now we can hear how Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony might have begun. Anyone present at Mstislav Rostropovich’s unforgettable Shostakovich Festival at...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 1/2005

Handel: Orchestral Arrangements

Here's an unfashionable record in this age of authenticity and back-to-the-original. Full-blown orchestral arrangements of Handel are hardly the thing,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1988

French Connections-Organ Music from St Edmundsbury Cathedral

These three composers are linked through their place in the venerable tradition of Cesar Franck, as R. G. Vicar’s generous...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1998

Puccini La bohème

Writing in June about the Beecham La boheme on EMI, I called it ''as complete a distillation of Puccini's drama...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1987

Brahms Deutsches Requiem

Good conductors tend to have their hinterlands – works they know well but would never touch themselves – and Karajan’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2008

Stravinsky in America

Stravinsky spent over three decades in America, and the achievements of those years cannot be summarized in a single CD....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 13/1997

Bach; Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues

The initial volume of Olli Mustonen’s thoughtfully melded sequence of Bach’s ‘48’ (Book 1) and Shostakovich’s ‘24’ Preludes and Fugues...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2004

Delibes Coppélia

Perhaps the last thing the cover illustration of this double CD set would lead one to expect is a recording...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/1994

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