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Bel Canto Scenes

The timing is well chosen. With a production of Il pirata at New York’s Metropolitan Opera coming up in her...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 1/2003

Liszt Missa solemnis

This CD adds a powerful and yet seldom performed Liszt work to the catalogue, and could well add a new...

Reviewed in issue 5/1986

Liszt Piano Works, Vol. 6

This latest in Bolet's fine series of Liszt recordings in exceptionally beguiling. Right from the opening of Venezia e Napoli...

Reviewed in issue 12/1985

Christmas Concertos

This particular selection of Italian baroque Christmas fare could become as familiar as mince pies and plum pudding, a comparison...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1985

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Ensemble

The Berlin Philharmonic Brass are one of the more recorded of the symphonic brass sections from one of the world’s...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/1998

Le Roux Works for Two Harpsichords

Gaspard Le Roux was active in Paris as a composer during the later years of the seventeenth and first decade...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1998

Three Masterpieces for Violincello of the early 20th Century

This is a serious artist at work. Mari Fujiwara won second prize at the 1978 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Before...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1986

Brahms Piano Quartets

The pianist, Frank Glazer, is no stranger. But the Cantilena Piano Quartet was new to me even though formed at...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986

Handel Theodora

Theodora, the last but one of Handel's oratorios, was a complete failure at its first performance in 1750: earthquake shocks...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1991

Donizetti Roberto Devereux

Written at a stressful and tragic time in Donizetti’s life, Roberto Devereux enjoyed a success which enabled him to end...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2003

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