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Nellie Melba sings Opera Arias & Songs

Paradoxes, anomalies, revaluations: gramophone history is full of them. In 'real' history, to judge by contemporary accounts and people's memories,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

Shostakovich Violin Concertos

No sooner have Mordkovitch and Chandos provided an ideal coupling in a fine modern recording, than Virgin Classics follow suit....

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1990

Oliveros Electronic Works

Pauline Oliveros’s electronic works occupy a stylistic niche between Stockhausen’s pioneering tape pieces and the self-evolving ambient experiments of Brian...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/1998

Schubert Piano Trios

The glorious Schubert B flat major Trio‚ like Beethoven’s Archduke‚ opens with a great‚ memorable swinging tune‚ yet when the...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Mozart/Haydn Masses

Two of the outstanding Masses of the classical era, but nevertheless very strange bedfellows on this CD, for the performances...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1993

Turnage Evening Songs; Scherzoid; When I Woke; Yet Another Set To

Mark-Anthony Turnage has enjoyed associations with the CBSO, BBC SO and now the London Philharmonic, each resulting in a wealth...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2005

Verdi Simon Boccanegra

Whichever of these recordings of this remarkable, nay unique work you have listened to last is likely to be the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997

David Wilde plays Chopin

These performances - taken from two Wigmore Hall concerts from the mid-1990s - include some of Chopin's most sophisticated and...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/2002

Purcell (The) Indian Queen

As Purcell resurfaces after the deluge of recordings in his tercentenary year of 1995, we are tantalizingly reminded in The...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1998

Casals Encores

In the last years of Pablo Casals’s career his encores would almost invariably be drawn from Bach’s Solo Cello Suites,...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2011

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