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Verdi La Traviata
Much as I admire the Aida reviewed below, if a choice had to be made I would go for this...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1987
Verdi Ernani
Although (quite rightly) JBS pointed out in his April 1984 ''Quarterly'' that Freni, Domingo, Bruson and Ghiaurov aren't quite the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1985
Mozart Chamber & Instrumental Works
This four-disc set of Mozart's chamber music is one of a group of issues which EMI are bringing out to...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1991
VERDI Requiem (Muti)
This release constitutes the fourth officially available recording of Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti. It’s a very welcome addition...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
Double Concertos featuring Jascha Heifetz
We are used to hearing recordings of the Brahms Double Concerto with the orchestra fairly well back in the picture,...
Reviewed in issue 6/1988
Themes and Variations (Guy Johnston, Tom Poster)
Guy Johnston | James Gilchrist
It takes a particularly selfless kind of cellist to begin a recital with Beethoven’s Bei Männern Variations. Donald Tovey once...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019
French Duets (Steven Osborne; Paul Lewis)
Back in December 2010 Jeremy Nicholas waxed lyrical about a recording of Schubert duets, which brought together Paul Lewis and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2021
Gerald Finley - Great Operatic Arias, Vol 22
All essentials for a recital are present here: the featured artist in good voice, imagination capable of bringing 13 different...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 4/2010
Jonas Kaufmann - Sehnsucht
Claudio Abbado | Jonas Kaufmann | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Margarete Joswig | Michael Volle
It should no longer come as a surprise, but however many times one has heard and admired Jonas Kaufmann, the...
Reviewed by John Allison in issue: 13/2009
French Piano Works, Vol 2
Cyprien Katsaris | Horst Neumann | Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Katsaris’s novel (and chronological) survey of French music on two discs is a compilation drawn from 11 different sources recorded...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2008
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