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Bizet Carmen

‘A bottle in the sea’: the note­writer’s phrase makes one wonder afresh where the recording has been all this time....

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Verdi Messa da Requiem

These reissues of historic sets of Verdi are welcome on several counts. They have been superbly remastered by Andrew Walter...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2001

Getty, G Orchestral Works

There are a growing number of composers of a new generation who are writing music aimed at the ordinary music...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2010

Liszt Works for Piano & Orchestra

This is playing in the grand manner. I have associated Krystian Zimerman in the past with refinement rather than bravura,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1988

Flute Concertos

A few of Mercadante's vocal works have kept a place in the record catalogue, but it is only in the...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991

Lalo Symphonie espagnole; Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto 1

Kyung Wha Chung's bright, alert and intense reading comes over the more incisively on CD. The fullness of the Montreal...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984

Ohguri Violin Concerto and other orchestral works

Just as London is untypical of England, Tokyo does not epitomise Japan. Osakans, it seems, are more informal, outgoing and...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2003

Ludus Danielis

Andrew Lawrence-King has assembled a thoughtful and attractive rendering of The Play of Daniel. The rhythmic interpretation of the unmeasured...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 8/1998

Zara Dolukhanova recital

To judge from current reference books (I haven’t found a single reference to her) Zara Dolukhanova is all but forgotten...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1996

Schumann Lieder & Duets

Myrthen have never been that well represented in the catalogue, and the performance by the two young Dutch artists is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1990

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