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Knappertsbusch conducts Wagner

Even allowing for the fact that these were demonstration records when they first appeared, the sound on this CD is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1986

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2

Jansons here rounds off his outstanding Oslo series of Tchaikovsky's numbered symphonies for Chandos (Manfred still to come), while Lorin...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987

Tchaikovsky opera arias sung by Julia Varady

Julia Varady is truly a phenomenon of her time. Recording here in her 59th year a most taxing programme of...

Reviewed in issue 2/2002

Mozart Late String Quartets

Mozart's last four quartets arouse much less admiration than the six he had written a little earlier for Haydn, but...

Reviewed in issue 2/1987

Mahler/Marx/R Strauss Lieder

This is an outright winner, easily the most enjoyable offering so far from a singer in EMI’s Debut series and...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1999

Offenbach (La) Belle Hélène

The 1952 account of Offenbach’s high fantasy-cum-satire (on the Third Empire) has always been considered a classic, anda benchmark by...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2003

Verbier Festival Highlights 2007

Perhaps it’s the mountain air. Or maybe the spectacular scenery. Or the haute cuisine. Or the chance to catch up...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2008

Wagner (Der) fliegende Holländer

Barenboim here completes his recordings of Wagner’s mature operas with a traversal of the storm-tossed score that, as far as...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002

Haydn String Quartets Opp 77, 42 & 103

Billed as The Lindsays’ final recording, this Haydn disc completes their traversal of all the composer’s quartets from the Op...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2006

Hindemith Violin Concerto, etc

The spine of this new disc boldly but misleadingly proclaims “Hindemith: Violin Works”, since only two (albeit the biggest) of...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

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