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Handel Arias for Durastanti

The idea of building a Handel opera recital around a particular singer in Handel's company may work especially well if...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1993

Pasquale Amato

Amato was born in Naples in 1878, where he sang Giorgio Germont in La traviata in 1900 – the same...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/1999

Rachmaninov; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas

The cello sonatas by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich make a good pairing, as more than one cellist has found, most recently...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2008

Bach: Keyboard works

The LP of this recital was one of a handful of Bach issues which gave me immense enjoyment when I...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1986

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in Carnegie Hall

How many singers have ever undertaken a recital of this length and variety, and executed it with such consummate mastery?...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1989

Strauss An Alpine Symphony

This is a magnificent record. In January I admired the recording by the GMJO under Welser-Möst – but this is...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/2006

Christine Brewer - Arias

Christine Brewer is a generous, warm-hearted artist, as her recent Leonore in the Opera-in-English Fidelio showed (8/05), but to ask...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2005

Bazzini Violin & Piano Works, Volume 1

An engaging introduction to the nimble Schumannesque music of violinist-turned-composer Antonio Bazzini (1818-97) begins with mature and accomplished works. The...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 7/2000

Beecham - The RPO Legacy, Vol. 1

With astonishingly full mono sound, this first disc in the RPO Legacy series vividly captures the tense excitement of the...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/1998

Nox-Lux: France & Angleterre 1200-1300

It is no easy task to find a suitable category in which to place this recording. La Reverdie (‘Springtime’? ‘Green...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

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