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J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus (in English)
Recordings of Die Fledermaus in English were common enough during the early days of LP. There was not only the...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1996
Beethoven Quintet for Piano & wind Instrument; Hindemith Sonata for Horn & Piano
The mono recordings here are variable. The Beethoven Piano and Wind Quintet is distant and subfusc, and not ideally balanced,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2005
Nellie Melba – Complete Gramophone Recordings, Vol 1
(Anonymous) Orchestra | Hermann Bemberg | Landon Ronald | Nellie Melba
This is very good news. Melba’s recordings for American Victor came out in a complete edition on Romophone, also with...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2003
Bach Organ Works, Vol. 2
Peter Hurford | Wolfgang Rübsam
Both these players have produced complete recordings of Bach's organ works in the last 15 years or so: Rubsam's (for...
Reviewed by prussell in issue: 12/1994
Prokofiev Music for Children
Finchley Children's Music Group | New London Orchestra | Oleg Prokofiev | Penelope Walmsley-Clark
Prokofiev's second childhood: Jose Serebrier (ASV, 7/91) recently took a similar trip down this particular memory lane, but the images...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991
Puccini Songs & Rare Pieces
Raphael Quartet | Roberta Alexander | Tan Crone
Though I would have preferred a more warmly Italianate soprano tone for this repertory than Roberta Alexander's, this is an...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1988
Muskett Miss Austen Regrets OST
Miss Austen Regrets was shown on BBC1 in March. Unlike the feature film Becoming Jane which told of a romance...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 8/2008
Walton: Sacred Choral Music
Graham Jackson | Richard Marlow | Trinity College Choir, Cambridge
In the very month when the Walton discography of major works is completed with the first recording of In Honour...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989
Piano recital by Santiago Rodriguez
Julius Katchen | Santiago Rodriguez
The Spanish pianist, Santiago Rodriguez (a new name to me) was ''propelled into the international spotlight'', so we're told, after...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1987
Strauss, R Don Juan; Burleske; Sinfonia Domestica
“One of my chief pleasures is to hear Till and Don Juan on the wireless, conducted by yourself. What a...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2009
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