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Review of John Williams The Seville Concert

John Williams The Seville Concert

The Usher Waltz of Koshkin is the only item not previously recorded by Williams; this disc is not, however, a...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1994

Review of Mozart Edition, Vol.14

Mozart Edition, Vol.14

The recordings here come from different locations and range in date from 1969 to 1987, the former applying to just...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991

Review of Jochen Kowalski Lieder Recital

Jochen Kowalski Lieder Recital

This of course is not the first Dichterliebe recording by a countertenor or alto. The Hungaroton version by Paul Esswood...

Reviewed in issue 12/1992

Review of Dyson Symphony in G

Dyson Symphony in G

Sir George Dyson's Symphony, composed in 1937, was still heard in the 1940s. Christopher Palmer in his excellent note for...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1994

Review of Hymns and Psalms from Winchester

Hymns and Psalms from Winchester

Buy this, may I suggest, and save it for a few days (you won’t have to wait long) until one...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Review of Furtwängler - Live Recordings

Furtwängler - Live Recordings

This wide-ranging collection of live recordings gives the most vivid portrait of one of the very greatest conductors of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2003

Review of Bizet Carmen

Bizet Carmen

The pre-overture prelude in the Francesco Rosi film of Carmen is enough to turn anyone into an animal rights activist....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 13/2011

Review of MacDowell Piano Concertos

MacDowell Piano Concertos

Edward MacDowell wrote his only two concertos in the early 1880s when he was himself in his early twenties. They...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Review of Mozart Don Giovanni

Mozart Don Giovanni

Klemperer was closely associated with Mozart’s dramma giocosa from the earliest days of his career, often staging the work in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999

Review of Mozart Die Zauberflöte (highlights)

Mozart Die Zauberflöte (highlights)

Highlights from the ''Flute'' make more sense than those from other operas as all the musical numbers are self-contained. As...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1986


 

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