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Meirion Williams Songs

Bryn Terfel, Gramophone's 1992 Young Artist of the Year, is a highly accomplished singer, skilled in some of the most...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Cesti (Le) disgrazie d'Amore

One of the arias in this unknown opera seemed puzzlingly familiar. A quick search of the bookshelves and there it...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2010

Haydn Piano Trio No 30. Shostakovich Cello Concerto No1; Piano Trio No 2

The real prizes here are the Trio performances – svelte readings, perceptively phrased, technically magnificent and with a furious pace...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Aksel Schiøtz, Vol. 4

“Hidden Treasure” is the appropriate subtitle for this volume of the complete Schiotz recordings. It begins with the ten songs...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1997

40 Degrees North (guitar works)

Xuefei Yang was the first guitarist to graduate from Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music, after which she attended the Royal...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 7/2008

Messiaen (Les) Oiseaux

I appreciate Louise Bessette’s Messiaen because, in the age of Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s juggernaut brilliance, she brings humility to these finger-busting...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2009

Wagner Tannhäuser

This is a revelatory interpretation of a work which is not easy to bring off. André Cluytens had taken over...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2005

Shostakovich Symphony No 13, 'Babi Yar'

If all that mattered in Shostakovich’s 13th was the “Babi Yar” setting that first motivated it, then there would be...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2006

Shostakovich Symphony No.10

Recordings of Shostakovich's most symphonically conceived symphony continue to flood in—see the review (page 51) of Erato's Mravinsky Edition for...

Reviewed in issue 6/1992

Mussorgsky Boris Godunov

What we have here is, literally, two operas for the price of one. That is to say, the two records...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1998

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