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Halévy (La) Juive

At the Paris Opéra in 1835, La Juive was regarded as a work which ‘required the most sumptuous and detailed...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2005

Rare Goossens

Léon Goossens was the most admired woodwind player of the last century, and a highly prolific recording artist from the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2003

Schubert & Schumann: Chamber Works

When planning this record, I wonder what streak of perversity prompted Richard Stoltzman to include only one work originally designed...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1989

Mozart Piano Duets, Vol.1

Surprisingly, this well-filled disc begins not with one of the sonatas but with the Adagio and Allegro in F minor,...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992

Mendelssohn Sacred Choral Works

In Cambridge, the colleges of St John and Trinity are next-door neighbours. Whether somebody has had his ear to the...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2006

Not Just Dowland

There are two halves to this recital, one English, the other Italian. The spots for solo lute break it up...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2010

Chopin Piano Concertos

Great recordings of the Chopin concertos are hardly thin on the ground. Rubinstein, Perahia, Argerich, Zimerman, Pires and Mewton-Wood are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2005

Brahms Piano Works

Though Ivo Pogorelich has been represented in the catalogue for some years now, his recorded repertory remains small and I...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1993

Wagner (Der) Ring des Nibelungen

During the pioneering post-war era at Bayreuth the conducting of the Ring was shared among the Ks – Karajan, Krauss,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2006

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies

Six discs for a Beethoven symphony cycle seems about the norm these days. What makes the Chandos set unusual is...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1989

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