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Review of Verdi Oberto

Verdi Oberto

Asturias Symphony Orchestra | Bilbao Opera Chorus | Carlo Ventre | Evelyn Herlitzius | Ildar Abdrazakov | Marianne Cornetti | Nuria Lorenzo | Yves Abel

Opus Arte

Opportunities to see Verdi’s first opera present themselves infrequently, which is entirely as it should be for the spectacle is...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2007

Review of Wolf Lieder

Wolf Lieder

Ruth Ziesak | Ulrich Eisenlohr

Classical

Ruth Ziesak, who made her name with her Salzburg Pamina in 1991 and again last summer and also on record...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1994

Review of Schumann Lieder

Schumann Lieder

Andreas Schmidt | Rudolf Jansen

DG

Schumann is certainly flavour of the day where Lieder are concerned. This version of Op. 39 is, on my reckoning,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1995

Review of Bloch Cello Works

Bloch Cello Works

Miriam Kramer | Peter Bruns | Roglit Ishay | Simon Over

Opus 111

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Bloch's chamber music prompted reverential intakes of breath. Works like the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2000

Review of Vanhal Symphonies, Vol 1

Vanhal Symphonies, Vol 1

(Nicolaus) Esterházy Sinfonia | Uwe Grodd

Naxos

Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813) was the cellist in that celebrated quartet party of about 1784, reported by the Irish tenor...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/2000

Review of Handel Concerti grossi, Op. 6, nos. 5-8

Handel Concerti grossi, Op. 6, nos. 5-8

(The) English Concert | Trevor Pinnock

Archiv

The first four concertos of Handel's Op. 6 in The English Concert's performances have already been released on CD (410...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1985

Review of English Song Series, Vol. 1 - Vaughan Williams

English Song Series, Vol. 1 - Vaughan Williams

Anthony Rolfe Johnson | Duke Qt | Graham Johnson | John Metcalfe | Louisa Fuller | Simon Keenlyside

Collins

This makes an auspicious start to a new, ambitious series from Collins Classics devoted to English song. At its heart...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1996

Review of Glinka Ruslan & Lyudmila

Glinka Ruslan & Lyudmila

Alexander Vedernikov | Alexandra Durseneva | Bolshoi Theatre Chorus | Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra | Ekaterina Morozova | Irina Dolzhenko | Maksim Paster | Maria Gavrilova | Taras Shtonda | Vadim Lynkovsky

Pentatone

This excellent new recording of Ruslan and Lyudmila claims attention for using ‘the original version’, and the booklet tells a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2004

Review of Schubert Winterreise

Schubert Winterreise

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Klaus Billing

Professor Elsa Schiller, having suffered terribly during the war as a Jew, was in charge of music at RIAS (Berlin...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1990

Review of Haydn Armida

Haydn Armida

Cecilia Bartoli | Christoph Prégardien | Markus Schäfer | Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Oliver Widmer | Patricia Petibon | Scot Weir | Vienna Concentus Musicus

Teldec (Warner Classics)

Armida was Haydn’s last opera for the opera house of Eszterhaza and his most successful there, running for an unprecedented...

Reviewed by hcanning in issue: 1/2001

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