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Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia
It is 21 years since the appearance on LP of Claudio Abbado's earlier DG recording of Rossini's Il barbiere. It...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1992
Poetry in Music
(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers
The glowing textures of Harris’s classic anthem Faire is the heaven give way to an exuberant and rhythmically incisive account...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2015
Boulez; Kurtag; Schoeller Chamber Works
Garth Knox | Nicholas Isherwood | Pascal Gallois | Sarah O'Brien
The other woodwind instruments have had their avant-garde champions, so why not the bassoon? French virtuoso Pascal Gallois, one-time member...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2003
25 Years Experimentalstudio Freiburg
It is good that these sets have appeared in the UK. Not only are many of the composers unfamiliar here,...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/1999
Boulez Piano Sonatas
It sometimes seems as if Pierre Boulez has spent a lifetime paying the penalty for having found composition so easy...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1995
Pergolesi Sacred Choral Works
Here is a disc that can be passed over in less time than it takes to pass on the advice....
Reviewed in issue 3/1997
Berg Early Songs; Pieces for Orchestra
Anne Sofie von Otter | Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It is only two years since Anne Sofie von Otter included Berg’s Seven Early Songs on a recital disc that...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
Fritz Wunderlich - Live on Stage
The pearl of great price: the German tenor who could make you wish to retract all you ever thought, wrote...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2011
Puccini Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut has been fortunate in the recording studio. Apart from three older recordings featuring Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi and...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/2000
Puccini Tosca
The main pleasure here is the absolute security of the singing. There are no moments at which you wince in...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1993
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