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Stephen Hough's English Album

The very opening item‚ Rawsthorne’s four Bagatelles‚ instantly makes it clear that this latest recital disc from Stephen Hough has...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Rossini Adelaide di Borgogna

Tenth-century Italy. Adelaide, widow of Lotario, King of Italy, has taken refuge in the castle of Canosso after the murder...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1995

Richard Tauber sings Lieder

I would not send an aspiring interpreter of Lieder to Tauber's recordings to learn style, but I would urge her...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990

Stravinsky (Le) Rossignol

The opera-on-DVD catalogue sells the medium short. Great singing and conducting is a raison d’être for recording, not necessarily for...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2005

Schubert String Quintet; Quartet in G; Quartet in D Minor

The traditionally ceremonial key of C major takes on a different hue in Schubert’s Quintet. Its demands, ranging from the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2009

Smetana Má Vlast; Bartered Bride - excerpts

It's not usually very helpful for a reviewer to hark back to deleted recordings, but I must confess that I...

Reviewed in issue 10/1987

Locatelli Flute Sonatas

No one, to the best of my knowledge, has committed these 12 sonatas to disc since Stephen Preston recorded them...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1993

Schumann: Symphonies

Number me amongst those who feel that Schumann was not really at ease in symphonic works and that his true...

Reviewed in issue 3/1986

Tan Dun Hero

The knee-jerk reaction of Tan Dun’s detractors will be to accuse the composer of recycling his Oscar-winning score to Crouching...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 10/2003

Kirsten Flagstad Edition, Vol. 1

Kirsten Flagstad was born on July 12th, 1895, and with this handsome boxed-set her centenary is celebrated very worthily by...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

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