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Verdi Otello

Compact Disc, as ever, is the most revealing of all 'carriers', and I have to report that my initial enthusiasm...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/1986

Mannheim Symphonies

The title of this record—''Classical Music In Bohemia''—is misleading, for the connection between the five symphonies is more that they...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1989

Dargomyzhsky Russalka (The Mermaid)

Undine‚ Melusine‚ Donauweibchen‚ Rusalka: the water spirit‚ and her doomed love for a mortal‚ haunted Europe in the first years...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Bache Piano Concerto in E; Bennett Piano Concerto No 4

Hyperion’s “The Romantic Piano Concerto” series, a wealth of novelties and delights, has reached its 43rd issue. Here is the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2007

Tchaikovsky (The) Seasons

Ashkenazy's pianistic return to Tchaikovsky, the composer most closely associated with his early triumph but for so long rejected by...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1999

Brahms: Piano Works

Lilya Zilberstein made her DG recording debut with a disc of Rachmaninov and Shostakovich (12/90) of which DJF was most...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1991

Schubert Lieder

Should I eat my words of last month when I stated that Simon Keenlyside was the ''best baritone interpreter of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994

Bruckner Symphony No. 3

When Bruckner’s original 1873 version of this symphony was finally published in the Bruckner Gesamtausgabe in 1977, Robert Simpson drafted...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2008

Mozart Orchestral Works

Nikolaus Harnoncourt usually manages to produce some surprises even in quite familiar works. In the opening item here, the March...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1994

Trumpet Rhapsody

Shimmering, sentimental and epic and, like all legends, inimitable. The now-septuagenarian Timofei Dokshitzer is at long last properly represented in...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/1997

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