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Verdi Otello

With the new Zeffirelli EMI Otello still resounding in the public ear and eye, and with AB's declaration (10/86) that...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1987

Berlioz Roméo et Juliette

It does seem hard that, after a gap of 16 years, two new recordings of Berlioz's remarkable imaginative distillation of...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1987

Mendelssohn Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

A fine new coupling of the Scottish and Italian Symphonies from the Prague Philharmonia under Belohlávek, beautifully played and warmly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 13/2006

Shchedrin Old Russian Circus Music;Symphony No 2

After a long period of relative obscurity, the music of Rodion Shchedrin is making new friends in the West. His...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Rossini Il viaggio a Reims

Paris always brought out the epicure in Rossini: in the 1820s and again, after years of debilitating illness, in the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1986

Stravinsky Firebird; Jeu de cartes

This is a very beautiful performance indeed, with the mystery, the hushed quiet and above all the lyricism of the...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1989

Dvorak; Suk Violin Works

Pavel Sporcl has established himself on disc as the most charismatic of young Czech violinists, spontaneously imaginative and individual in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2007

Frescobaldi Suonate d'intavolatura

This is a specialized recording, but not just for specialists. It includes a substantial number of pieces ascribed to Frescobaldi...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/1999

Verdi (I) Vespri siciliani

There’s not much joy in this opera, and perhaps the producer who makes it his business to rub the fact...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/2007

Mattiwilda Dobbs - Arias & Songs

I heard Mattiwilda Dobbs as the Queen of Shemakhan (The Golden Cockerel), Gilda and Olympia when she made her much-admired...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1999

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