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Prometheus
An ingenious and instructive programme. Prometheus's theft of fire from Zeus and the cruelty of his punishment are all but...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
Teresa Berganza – 70th Birthday Tribute
This four-CD set, issued to coincide with Teresa Berganza’s 70th birthday, is a mostly satisfying and joyful celebration of her...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/2005
Incomparable Rudolf Serkin
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado | Mstislav Rostropovich | Rudolf Serkin
DG’s two-disc tribute is rightly called ‘The Incomparable Rudolf Serkin’. ‘A passionate puritan’ (as Jeremy Siepmann tells us in his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2003
Cecilia Bartoli sings Mozart
Bartoli, now aged 36 and 15 years on from her stage début, is clearly ripe for selective plucking by the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2002
Songs of Love and Desire Gala from Berlin.
I wonder why it has taken four years for this DVD of one of Berlin’s traditional New Year concerts to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003
Mozart: Choral Works
Mozart's symphonic and instrumental music, to say nothing of the operas, sometimes makes us forget his sacred choral music (even...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1991
Verdi Ernani
Gnarled and cynical old opera-goers were known to wobble like jellies after the BBC showed a video of the La...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1984
Verdi La forza del destino
It was ever thus: the more or less simultaneous release of two recordings of distinction in a limited field. In...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1987
Stravinsky (Le) Sacre de Printemps
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Boulez
For Boulez the conductor‚ the early 20thcentury orchestral works of Debussy‚ Stravinsky and Berg have always had special significance. In...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
The bigger the record company, the greater its output of Beethoven cycles—a plausible generalization, though so far Decca and EMI...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1989
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