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Beethoven Emperor Concerto
Karl Böhm | Maurizio Pollini | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The Beethoven orchestra is not the easiest thing to record at the best of times. On this five-year-old analogue recording...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1984
Wagner Die Walküre
The first point to be made is that this Decca version is once again a revelation in sound, improving appreciably...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1985
Beethoven Fidelio
This highly idiosyncratic project derives from semi-staged performances given in Chicago, where the dialogue was replaced by a narration (written...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2000
Charpentier Louise
Although composed in the 19th century, Charpentier’s Louise is essentially the first real 20th-century opera, its premiere in April 1900...
Reviewed in issue 12/2000
Beethoven: Orchestral Works
Karl Böhm | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
''In music that calls for a touch of demon or virtuosity, such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 7,'' says John Holmes...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1990
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Following Karajan's death, we may expect a flood of reissues from his enormous gramophone legacy. Here now are two of...
Reviewed in issue 1/1990
Purcell Dido and Aeneas
Time flies, and perhaps the charming and once-familiar story needs to be told again. In 1950 Kirsten Flagstad, then widely...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 13/0
Humperdinck Hänsel and Gretel
Comparisons linked to quandaries have affected my listening and choices among the new issues and their predecessors. The version in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2005
Beethoven String Quartets Nos 15 and 16
Hearing this after immersing myself in the Emerson Quartet’s Beethoven cycle, I was struck by how different these two highly...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1997
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Those who know Zinman and the Tonhalle’s set of Beethoven symphonies‚ also on Arte Nova (7/99)‚ will have a more...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
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