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Mozart Portraits Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli | György Fischer | Vienna Chamber Orchestra
For her second disc of Mozart arias (the first was reviewed in December 1991), Cecilia Bartoli tries on the costumes...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
Beethoven: Lieder recital
Ian Partridge | Richard Burnett
This single record of Beethoven's songs may go unnoticed in the mighty shadow cast by Fischer-Dieskau's three-record volume with Harmut...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1985
Henze Collection
Released to celebrate the seventieth birthday (on July 1st) of Hans Werner Henze, this handsome 14-disc survey brings together the...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
Rachmaninov Piano concerto 3
Jorge Bolet | London Symphony Orchestra
Now 71, Jorge Bolet has had time to cultivate self-control. In the heat of excitement he neither surges ahead nor...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1985
Brahms/Dohnányi Piano Works
Adám Fischer | Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra | Mark Anderson
Brahms had the good grace to say of Erno Dohnanyi's C minor Piano Quintet, ''I could not have written it...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1995
(The) Sublime Voice of Carlo Bergonzi
'Carlo Bergonzi is known as the tenor's tenor' apparently. He was also very much the critic's tenor and, as far...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2000
Puccini Discoveries
Few composers concentrated so completely on writing operas as Puccini did, and all but one of the items on this...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2004
Schubert Winterreise
Imogen Cooper | Wolfgang Holzmair
With more than 50 versions of this extraordinary work now in the catalogue, making a choice becomes ever more difficult....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996
d'Indy Wallenstein
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | Lawrence Power | Thierry Fischer
Like my colleague Ivan March I derived enormous pleasure from the first volume in Rumon Gamba’s d’Indy series for Chandos...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2009
Giordano & Zandonai Operas
There was real excitement surrounding the release of these records in 1970. A few months after they were recorded, in...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/1992
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