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D'Albert Tiefland
Tiefland has never been more than occasionally revived outside German-speaking lands, and it is easy to see why this rather...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1993
Mozart: Don Giovanni
This historic performance presents Don Giovanni very much as Grand Romantic Opera. Furtwangler's tempos are in most cases, though far...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1986
(Les) Introuvables d' Alexis Weissenberg
This is Weissenberg’s personal selection, and a wide-ranging, richly fascinating choice it is too. No Schumann and none of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2004
Debussy & Ravel: Orchestral Works
Ulster Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier
This is a compilation that should attract lovers of the music of these two French masters. Each of the four...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1990
Literes Jupiter y Semele
Al Ayre Español continue their rehabilitation of the Spanish Baroque with a persuasive recording of a zarzuela by the 18th-century...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/2003
Byrd Sacred Choral Works
(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers | Quink Vocal Quintet
Byrd's Masses for four and five voices form the bedrock of the English choral tradition: every cathedral or college chorister...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 9/1990
Puccini Gianni Schicchi
One of the world’s best jokes immortalised in a masterpiece of a score: it doesn’t often fail and indeed is...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2004
Lamento
Cologne Musica Antiqua | Magdalena Kozená | Reinhard Goebel
This was was originally intended to be Volume 3 of Reinhard Goebel’s ‘Bachiana’ series, but Kozená’s central role in it...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2005
Panufnik, R Beastly Tales
City of London Sinfonia | Patricia Rozario | Roderick Williams | Sian Edwards | Yvonne Howard
Roxanna Panufnik describes her invitation from Stephen Carpenter of the London Sinfonietta as ‘a composer’s dream’. She was given a...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/2006
Stähle & Dvorák Piano Quartets
Hugo Stahle was one of the most promising of his generation of composers, widely admired for the fluency and charm...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1989
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