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Strauss, R Four Last Songs; Salome: Final Scene; Capriccio: Final Scene

To borrow a phrase from Richard Osborne, mighty tents are already pitched on these fields – for the Songs Schwarzkopf/Szell,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 6/2007

Music of the Americas Vol 4- Lecuona

Lecuona’s lightweight but engaging talents were more skilfully set out in his fairly familiar Andalucia suite than in the Danzas...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1999

Kathleen Ferrier sings Bach and Handel

At normal control levels on my equipment I found this harash, particularly on string tone above a mezzo-forte but also...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

(A) Vaughan Williams Hymnal

I enjoyed the record very much but was mightily frustrated by the documentation. If you want to find out about...

Reviewed in issue 1/1997

Suk Asrael

''Like an eye gazing fixedly into space''—a description of the sustained D flat on flutes and muted trumpet that runs...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1992

Schubert/Wolf Goethe Lieder

Sophie Koch may have won her spurs in opera, including appearances as Rosina and Dorabella at Covent Garden. But a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1999

Massenet Thérèse

Under Richard Bonynge’s expert guidance Decca looked out the strongest of the rare Massenet operas for revival in the 1970s....

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

The Cradle of the Renaissance

Nowadays, the Italian repertory of fifteenth-century secular music is better known through the reworkings of visiting foreigners like Isaac and...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/1996

Pergolesi Stabat Mater; A. Scarlatti Concerti grossi

With the King's Consort's splendid Hyperion recording of Pergolesi's Stabat mater still fresh in my memory, this heavy-handed, sentimentalized performance...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989

R Strauss Daphne

Had Reining's best years not coincided with the war she would surely be rated even more highly than she is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1995

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