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Wagner (Der) Ring des Nibelungen
DVD’s second Ring cycle deserves a warm welcome, however qualified. None of the four video-recorded versions (five, counting the hard-to-find...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 1/2003
Kienzl Der Evangelimann
Der Evangelimann (''The Evangelist''; 1895) is the work by which Wilhelm Kienzl is now almost exclusively remembered. Its original success...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 9/1989
Debussy: Piano Works
This is a very successful recital, recorded 20 years ago but well worth this CD transfer. Tamas Vasary has the...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1991
Mozart Divertimenti
Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica | Sándor Végh
Mozart's Divertimento, K287, is scored for two violins, viola, two horns and bass, a combination which cannot be easy to...
Reviewed in issue 11/1989
Britten Paul Bunyan
Although Britten talked excitedly while composing Paul Bunyan about a Broadway production, it was in fact carefully written for the...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2000
Concord of Sweet Sounds
Players of the flute (whether traverse or fipple) and lute certainly played together in pre-classical times, and the lute was...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1988
Rameau Pièces de clavecin, Vol 2
This second recording in Sophie Yates’s Rameau series (the first was released four years ago, 12/00) has it all –...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2004
Toscanini conducts Elgar & Mussorgsky
Arturo Toscanini | NBC Symphony Orchestra
Toscanini took up Ravel's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition very soon after it became generally available, and it remained...
Reviewed in issue 2/1992
Sibelius Theatre Music
Joseph Swensen | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
A glance at my comparative trio will tell you that we’ve not been short of memorable readings of Pelléas et...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2004
Liszt: Works for piano and orchestra
Jorge Bolet | London Symphony Orchestra
Quite apart from the high quality of the performances, this is to be welcomed because we have no locally available...
Reviewed in issue 5/1985
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