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Handel Marian Cantatas and Arias

In his notes to this recording, the conductor Reinhard Goebel draws attention to the final item, the cantata Il pianto...

Reviewed in issue 7/1994

Barber; Beethoven; Tchaikovsky Chamber Works

A towering performance of the Kreutzer Sonata; I couldn’t resist the temptation to repeat the experience immediately. Performance is the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2004

Vienna State Opera Live, Vol.22

Volume 22 is a vital issue. It documents Hotter at the height of his powers as a young Heldenbariton in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996

Bertoni Orfeo

In 1776, Ferdinando Bertoni (1725-1813) wrote a new setting of the Calzabigi Orfeo libretto for the castrato Gaetano Guadagni, who...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1997

Icebreaker - Terminal Velocity

The British ensemble Icebreaker emerged in the late 1980s as one answer to the identity crisis that new music suffered...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2006

Koussevitzky conducts Berlioz and R. Strauss

Koussevitzky’s 1944 recording of Harold in Italy was the first ever commercially available, and as RL said when an earlier...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1997

Kleiber conducts Beethoven,Berg, Schubert

Of various surviving broadcasts featuring Erich Kleiber with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, the expertly judged Schubert Ninth issued here...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2008

Tchaikovsky Symphonies

A passionate Russian temperament on the podium and the LSO in one of its heydays (the 1960s) are good enough...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1994

Mozart Complete Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard, Vol 1

This is billed as Volume 1 of a complete set, and the series certainly gets off to a cracking start....

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2005

'Mr Henry Purcell's Most Admirable Composure's'

James Bowman must surely be the finest vocal interpreter of Purcell today. His grasp of sentiment, his sense of timing...

Reviewed in issue 7/1989

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