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Verdi Otello

Just as Othello is a difficult play to bring off in the theatre, so Otello is a difficult opera to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1994

Mendelssohn Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2

These are eminently musical readings of Mendelssohn’s works for piano and orchestra. German pianist Ragna Schirmer has been quietly forging...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2007

A Christmas Collection-Schütz and Gabrieli

This handsome anthology of Schutz’s Christmas music was recorded last year during the festive season. The selection spans the whole...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/1997

John Cage Thirteen Harmonies

For his bicentennial celebration, Apartment House 1776, Cage took 44 choral pieces by a group of colonial composers, including William...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1995

Hindemith (Das) Marienleben

Das Marienleben is a masterpiece of the song-cycle genre, one of few 20th-century examples to rank with the greatest from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2010

Haydn String Quartets

It is not to be expected that CDs deriving from recordings of around 1970 will sound so vivid as more...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Ge Gan-Ru Fall of Baghdad

Born in Shanghai in 1954 but a New Yorker since 1983, wherever Ge Gan-Ru goes the tag “China’s first avant-garde...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2010

David Oistrakh plays Violin Sonatas

David Oistrakh’s playing is, at its best, a calming force in an agitated world – intelligent, considered (just occasionally overcalculated),...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

Messiaen Songs of Love and Death

As I keep on saying, the title-page of Harawi calls for a grand soprano dramatique, and Lucy Shelton, whose voice...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1999

Albinoni (Il) Nascimento dell'Aurora

Albinoni was a prolific composer of opera for his native city of Venice. However, Il nascimento dell’Aurora is not an...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 5/2008

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