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Stainton Moby Dick

If John Huston’s 1956 big-screen version of Herman Melville’s masterpiece has always tended to divide opinion, there has never been...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998

(A) Spanish SOngbook

Jill Gomez's imaginative and wide-ranging survey of songs in Spanish, or by German, French and English composers on Spanish themes,...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/1994

Joseph Schmidt - (The) Ultraphon Recordings

With a taste for tenors and no previous experience of this particular one, you might be likely on hearing the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

Dvorák Chamber Works

There are two other versions of the Piano Quintet available, by Clifford Curzon with the Vienna Philharmonic Quartet (Decca) and...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985

Donizetti Don Pasquale

This is a most attractive set and presents a serious challenge to the two versions listed above. Like the excellent...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1994

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6-8

Haydn's three 'programe' symphonies of 1761 are the most colourful and fetching of all his early works. They were probably...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1990

The Service of Venus and Mars

Christopher Page's new record with Gothic Voices repeats a formula that has worked so well in the past: a theme...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/1987

R. Strauss Rosenkavalier

As more and more recordings are released from Austrian Radio archives of performances in the period just after the State...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2000

Rachmaninov Music for Piano and Orchestra

Here are the 'coals-to-Newcastle' pieces Ashkenazy took with him for his much-publicized return to Moscow. A souvenir of a memorable...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Puccini (La) Fanciulla del West

Fired up by its sensational Tosca, available on DVD from Decca, the Netherlands Opera clearly wanted a repeat of its...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2010

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