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R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier

You may want this version for Frederica von Stade's beautifully sung, engaging, fully characterized Octavian or for Carreras's brief incursion...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1994

Schubert Lieder

All Holzmair’s familiar gifts in Lieder are brought to bear on this absorbing selection of Goethe settings. Nowhere are they...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2006

Langaard Sinfonia interna

Langgaard withdrew his 'stage-symphony' Sinfonia interna (1915-6) after completing Antikrist. He recomposed parts of it until the 1940s and planned...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2000

Vivaldi: Concerti da Camera

Perusal of the personnel and the prospect of the restoration of several long-deleted delicacies to the recorded menu stimulates the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1986

Wellesz Symphonies Nos 2 and 9

The Second Symphony (1947-8) may come as a big surprise to those who know Egon Wellesz only from his later...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2004

Dvorák/Schubert String Quartets

Since leaving EMI and Nimbus, the Medici Quartet have been recording under their own label, and the two present issues...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Viva Napoli - Canzoni Villanesche

To date, Ensemble Doulce Memoire’s discography has been fairly evenly divided between French and Italian repertories. Here the group associates...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: /2000

Haydn/Ginastera/Stravinsky Orchestral Works

This looks like an interesting coupling but it turns out to be no such thing, mainly because Popol Vuh is...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1993

Corigliano Flute Concerto; Voyage

John Corigliano's Flute Concerto is expertly tailored as a vehicle for the virtuosity and the highly individual timbre of James...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1988

Schubert String Quartet, D887; Notturno, D897

The Takacs Quartet make their first offering to Schubert year: the distinctive character of their new recording of the final...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1997

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