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Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances

Not unexpectedly this new Telarc disc has warm, full sound, yet with refined detail, and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra plays...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992

Hasse The Conversion of St Augustine

La conversione di Sant' Agostino was first performed at Dresden's Taschenberg Palace on March 28th, 1750. It was Hasse's last...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1993

Stanford Symphony No.2/Clarinet Concerto

The spirits of Parry and Stanford should be haunting Chandos in the most favourable ways imaginable. With this premiere recording...

Reviewed in issue 1/1992

Schütz St. Matthew Passion

Schutz's St Matthew Passion, by any standards a startlingly powerful piece, is all the more remarkable for being the work...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia

There have been three new recordings of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia in the last year and it would be...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1993

Wagner Parsifal

Productions of Parsifal with no forest and no Grail temple are par for today’s course but can be particularly alienating...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2007

R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben; Macbeth

There can only be the warmest of welcomes for Rudolf Kempe's famous recording of Ein Heldenleben. If Karajan's (DG) is...

Reviewed in issue 5/1988

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 1 - 4

András Schiff embarks on a Beethoven cycle recorded live in chronological order, to be released in eight separate volumes over...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2005

Englund Orchestral Works

The late Einar Englund is, to my mind, the finest Finnish symphonist between Sibelius and Kokkonen, and the Blackbird Symphony...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2000

Blezard Piano Music

Blezard has had to wait until his later seventies to reach the CD catalogue and these are first recordings of...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 2/1999

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