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Karine Babajanyan - Puccini Arias

Here is a soprano, apparently in her youthful prime, gifted with a warmly sympathetic voice and feelings to match; the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009

Mayr Musica Sacra

The Austrian broadcasting company ORF is issuing an impressive series of early music recordings, the repertoire almost always remarkably obscure....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2007

R. Strauss Works for Horn

In an informative note, Barry Tuckwell explains how he sought (and was refused) permission to record more Strauss juvenilia than...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus

There is not a great deal to add to what I wrote when reviewing the LP version, except to say...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1987

The Young Shura Cherkassky

As a disc to go out and buy, this is surely for specialist collectors and ex-groupies only. Other admirers of...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1996

Raie da Costa - Piano Recordings of the 1920s & 30s, Volume 1

With the rise of Billy Mayerl, further fine syncopated pianists are emerging. The South African-born, classically trained da Costa died...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/1998

Songs of Angels - Magdalen College, Oxford

To the sound of a distantly tolling bell, singing men open this intriguing disc with the medieval Vespers’ Hymn celebrating...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/2003

Beethoven Piano Concerto 5; Choral Fantasia

The opening, threefold flourish of the Emperor Concerto has always seemed to me the herald of a work of huge,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1990

Zemlinsky Orchestral Works

Collectors with designs on the completest possible Zemlinsky will want this disc, but I don't feel that most of the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1991

Dame Moura Lympanys plays Falla, Liszt, Litolff & Mendelssohn

All these recordings, dating from 1964 to 1967, appear on general release for the first time, with the Liszt A...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2000

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