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Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 1

It is splendid news that, notwithstanding the deletion of his memorable L'Oiseau-Lyre LP (DSLO41, 11/79—nla), Bolet has embarked on a...

Reviewed in issue 3/1983

Mahler Orchestral & Vocal Works

Jarvi's somewhat ungracious ritardando in the third bar of the symphony (the grazioso violin entry) appears to catch the sleighbell...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1992

Nazzareno de Angelis (1881-1962)

Here is one of the most regal and sonorous voices on record. De Angelis never sang at Covent Garden or...

Reviewed in issue 7/1992

Bruckner Symphony No 5

Working drafts of great masterpieces may be caviar to the general but they are a rich source of interest to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2005

Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa (Lamentations of Jeremiah)

Maria Cristina Kiehr’s is one of the most beguiling voices to be heard today. Of a handful of recordings she...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2007

Monteverdi Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Forty years after Raymond Leppard astonished Glyndebourne audiences with reconstructions of Monteverdi’s two late operas‚ the debate he provoked about...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Mendelssohn & Shostakovich Chamber Works

A curious coupling, you might think, but it's a thought-provoking one: the players almost seem to be challenging the easy...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1989

Obrecht Missa Caput & Salve Regina

With the Ockeghem commemoration behind us, I look forward to 2005 and the opportunity it offers to lavish the same...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/1998

Monteverdi L'Incoronazione di Poppea

Nobody has done more for Venetian opera since the last war than Raymond Leppard, a greatly gifted musician sadly lost...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 9/2004

Liszt Études d'exécution transcendente (1851 version)

Naxos’s project to record Liszt’s complete piano music using a number of pianists flies apace (Vols. 3 and 4 are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1997

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