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VERDI Macbeth
A ruffian who rose too far, too fast? Or a more cultivated Scotsman who might have been king anyway but...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012
Mozart Die Zauberflöte
This recording, made in 1954, and now coming up for the third time (as it were), has something of a...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1993
Cimarosa (Il) Matrimonio segreto
When, a few years ago, Gramophone reviewers were invited to nominate a work they would like to see reissued on...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1993
RAVEL Mélodies
Alain Altinoglu | Nora Gubisch
The emancipation of the human voice in terms of communicating the intricacies and inflections of the French language is comprehensively...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012
MOZART Symphonies Nos 36, 39, 40 & 41
Adám Fischer | Danish National Chamber Orchestra
With these two volumes, Adam Fischer completes his cycle of Mozart’s symphonies; the complete set is also now available cheaply...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014
R. Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos
If you are one of those listeners who found Levine's tempos in his recent DG Ariadne too mercurial and wayward,...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Firebird Suite
The languid opening bassoon solo, which in this instance more evokes a humid rainforest than an unforgiving patch of pagan...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2012
Salzburg Lieder Recitals, 1962-64
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Gerald Moore
It is a blooming, plump-cheeked, black-andwhite Fischer-Dieskau that we see in the book of words which accompanies this set: this...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1989
STRAVINSKY. MARTIN Violin Concertos
Baiba Skride | BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Thierry Fischer
Quite an ear-opener. The Stravinsky Violin Concerto is little short of a revelation, lean and keen, with the kind of...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW/2012
R. Strauss Elektra
By rights this version, even at medium price, shouldn't be competitive. It is 30 years old, Bohm allows the cuts...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1991
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