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Mozart: Die Entführung, etc
Beecham made all too few recordings of Mozart operas, so this CD reissue, in spite of a number of drawbacks,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1991
RAMEAU Castor & Pollux
We’re fortunate to have recordings of both the original 1737 version of Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux (with prologue) and...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014
Movements: Schumann, Ravel, Stravinsky (George Li)
Since his silver medal at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, the American pianist George Li, who turns 29 this summer, has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2024
Poulenc Liberté
Benedetto Marcello's Estro poetico-armonico was published in Venice in the mid-1720s and contains cantata-like settings of the first 50 Psalms...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/2000
James Dillon 2-Chamber Music
The earliest work on this disc, Crossing over for clarinet (1978), already displays the essence of that highly personal blend...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1996
BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Trevor Pinnock)
Because Trevor Pinnock’s solo harpsichord forays are few and far between these days, it’s easy to forget just what a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020
MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Hard on the heels of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s DG recording of Mozart’s Ottoman Singspiel (DG, 8/15) comes this radical version from...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail
This is such an enjoyable production of Mozart’s Turkish opera that it seems churlish to draw attention to its defects....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016
Rameau Castor et Pollux
William Christie’s recording of this opera was of Rameau’s original version, which in 1737 met with a somewhat muted reception...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1998
Couperin (3) Leçons de Ténèbres; Lalande Psalm 50
This isn’t quite the usual season for leçons de ténèbres, but here we have two versions of Couperin’s surviving settings,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/2003
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