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Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann

This new Hoffmann offers a starry international cast against the background of a French chorus and orchestra. It presents Placido...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/1990

Howells Organ Works, Vol 3

Not-so-young Gramophone readers may remember Vista’s LP series of Howells’s organ works, issued in the late 1970s and early 1980s,...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 11/1999

Tippett A Child of our Time

Pierre Boulez, during his years at the BBC, was celebrated (or notorious) for his lack of interest in such mainstream...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1995

Jongen Complete Chamber Music with Harp

The Belgian Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) was a prolific composer of orchestral and chamber music, plus a substantial contribution to the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2003

Handel Messiah (ed Tobin)

This is a very remarkable performance, in spite of an uncertain genesis. In Some comments on Handel's ''Messiah'' which came...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Sir Henry Wood conducts Proms Favourites

This disc of mainly light and lesser items serves well enough as a pendant to Dutton Laboratories' new two-disc set...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Beethoven (Complete) Symphonies

John Nelson’s “ideal” in recording the Beethoven symphonies, he explains in the CD booklet, “was to represent the man and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 7/2007

Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill

As she demonstrated in London’s Chicago cast, Ute Lemper is a consummate musical star with an engaging line in gamey...

Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2003

Shostakovich Symphony No 15

In his Fifteenth Symphony, Shostakovich confronts us with a list of irreconcilable, curiouser-and-curiouser “whys”. Why start your symphony with a...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2009

Gibbons Organ and Choral Works

In his time reputedly known as ''the best finger of that age'', Gibbons wrote for the organ with an expertise...

Reviewed in issue 11/1994

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