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Rinjvos Block Beuys

It’s always quite moving to take in at one sitting a work that has taken its composer years to write....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2005

Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Vol. 3

With Vol. 3 Daniel Smith and his supporting cast reach halfway house on their journey through the mysterious territory of...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1989

John Charles Thomas in Opera & Song

These additions to Nimbus’s Prima Voce series are both new issues deriving from Victor originals, the artists being household names...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2006

Grieg Orchestral Music, Vol 3

Grieg completed his youthful Symphony in a hurry in 1863/64, but declaring that “it belongs to a bygone Schumann-period in...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2007

Schubert Death and the Maiden

The three minute opener to this disc has Ann Murray's clear, strong mezzo-soprano voice set against a well-distanced piano accompaniment...

Reviewed in issue 12/1986

Tchaikovsky Queen of Spades

There are major problems with all three current sets of Tchaikovsky's most melodramatic opera. If melodrama were all, the mid-1970s...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Puccini Edgar

Puccini’s second opera, first performed at La Scala in 1889, was deemed a failure. The composer returned to it on...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 12/2009

Hummel Piano Concertos

The 150th anniversary of Hummel's death provides a timely spur to rescue these third and fourth of his half-dozen or...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1987

Onslow (Complete) Piano Trios Vol. 2

Second-rank composers of the 19th century have still to be investigated and assessed in the same way as those of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2009

Menotti Amelio al Ballo

Amelia al ballo (‘Amelia goes to the ball’) was Menotti’s first big success. Premiered in 1937, when the composer was...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/2001

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