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Handel Alcina

Though twice recorded before (a 1959 Melodrama under Leitner—never available in the UK—and a 1962 Decca under bonynge on GOS509,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1986

Elgar The Light of Life

Hickox's superior Elgarian credentials are immediately established in the glorious orchestral ''Meditation'', where his conducting demonstrates a noble flexibility, sensitivity...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1994

Schoenberg String Quartets

This disc is very good news for collectors who are reluctant to invest in boxed sets of Schoenberg's complete chamber...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1999

Liszt Works for Piano and Orchestra

What if, for one reason or another, Liszt had never completed his Second Piano Concerto and it was suddenly rediscovered?...

Reviewed in issue 10/1991

Great European Organs, No.12

Priory's ''Great European Organs'' series here turns its attention to one of the most famous instruments of all. Mozart and...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1989

Egk Die Verlobung in San Domingo

Heinrich von Kleist's short novel Betrothal in St Domingo, published in 1811, offers a heady brew of sudden passion, imagined...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1994

Beethoven Symphonies

Is there anything Sir Charles Mackerras can't turn his hand to? It isn't just the way success follows success, it's...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1993

Gershwin Orchestral Works

As a man whose music has heightened the impact of so many favourite films, one might expect John Williams, the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1991

Glenn Gould plays Bach and Scarlatti

Imperious and wistful, authoritarian and whimsical, idiosyncratic yet creating his own ambience and lucidity, mischievous yet of the fiercest integrity,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1998

Rossini Stabat Mater

It is not unusual for a recording to come along which is fascinating to encounter but which one would hesitate...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

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