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(The) Reopening of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan in 1946
The war over, the Milanese set about the immediate rebuilding of the bombed La Scala. By 1946 the work was...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1999
Cherubini/Haydn Masses
Cherubini was born in 1760, four years after Mozart, and lived until 1842, when Beethoven had been in his grave...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 5/1993
Scriabin: Piano works
This is the long-delayed final instalment of Ashkenazy's Scriabin cycle (Nos. 2, 7 and 10 are available on SXL6868, 9/78;...
Reviewed in issue 10/1987
Ezio Pinza (1892-1957) - III
This, the latest instalment in Preiser’s Pinza edition (Vol. 1 was reviewed in 3/92) is made up of some of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1997
Bloch Schelomo. Migun. Israël.
You would need to be either congenitally insensitive or politically desensitised not to appreciate the symbolic significance of an Israel...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2000
Beethoven Symphony 6/Schubert Symphony 8
André Cluytens | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Andre Cluytens (1905-67) was never an especially individual interpreter of the music he conducted, but he understood how the old...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2000
Boccherini: Cello Concertos & Symphonies
Anner Bylsma | Jeanne Lamon | Tafelmusik
Tafelmusik are a Canadian period-instrument group who bring plenty of spirit and enthusiasm to their performances. I have chiefly heard...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990
Byrd Virginals & Consorts
Capriccio Stravagante | Skip Sempé
This is technically superb and musically distinctive. Skip Sempe and his musicians grab hold of each piece and play it...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 9/1997
Mendelssohn Concertos
Andreas Staier | Concerto Köln | Rainer Kussmaul
These two boyhood works of Mendelssohn, dating from his early teens, make an excellent coupling, providing generous measure too, when...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998
Vycpálek Czech Requiem/Cantata
The labelling of this record as Supraphon Historical is almost poignantly accurate; it is also a historic record in several...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1993
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