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Verdi Messa da Requiem

The publicity tells us this performance is ‘stunning’: I am not sure I actually want to be stunned by an...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Kurtág Játékok; Szálkák; Grabstein für Stephan

A curious release in that it duplicates much of the existing Kurtág discography without offering much of a new perspective....

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2007

R. Strauss Eleketra

It is hardly surprising that many of the greatest operas have been the result of the close co-operation between an...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1989

Sure Thing The Jerome Kern Songbook

Jerome Kern seems to remain the safest bet for operatic sopranos who like to sing the theatre song repertoire from...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/1994

Pizzetti Choral Works

While his close contemporary, Respighi, was luxuriating in orchestral colour, Ildebrando Pizzetti was following an increasingly austere path largely divorced...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1992

Glière Symphony No. 1; The Sirens

''Not another Tchaikovsky Fifth'' goes the record-collector's cry. So bravo to an enterprise such as this, which answers the call....

Reviewed in issue 9/1986

Dowland Lachrimae

Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares consists, in order of the seven pavans based on the Lachrimae itself ''Semper Dowland'', the first...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1988

Bel Canto Arias

There are two tracks here which, if they had been the two sides of an old 78, would have become...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Haydn Symphonies

After his idiosyncratic Teldec series of Haydn and Mozart recordings with the Concertgebouw, Nikolaus Harnoncourt now gives us two of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1990

Alfred Cortot - 1929-1937 Recordings

After five volumes of Cortot’s Chopin, Naxos continues with a miscellany dating from 1929 to 1937 of an incomparable glory....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2010

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