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Cherubini Overtures

Cherubini's overtures were once quite popular concert items, as is indicated by an old two-volume Breitkopf & Hartel miniature score...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1992

Wagner Tristan und Isolde

In his new book The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (OUP: 1983), Bryan Magee devotes a long appendix to the relationship between...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1983

Dvorák Violin Concerto; Piano Trio Op 65

This is not the first disc to couple Dvorák’s lone violin concerto with one of his chamber works. Sarah Chang’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2004

European Concert 1992

The great Basilica of the Escorial wears an unusually bright expression for this concert. ‘The heart of Spanish civilization is...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2003

Mozart (Die) Zauberflöte

Memory has a trick of losing the good, the nice and the normal, and retaining only the oddities, which then...

Reviewed by jswain in issue: 9/1986

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

This is a recording of what was not only the first performance of Eugene Onegin in Russian at the Vienna...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2005

Picker Orchestral Works

Much of what Tobias Picker does sounds and feels familiar. It’s the attitude that begins to make the difference. In...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/2003

Verdi Stiffelio at the Met

Highly as I recommended the compelling performance conducted by Sir Edward Downes emanating from Covent Garden (and expertly directed for...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1997

Stravinsky Orchestral Works

Most recordings of Petrushka use Stravinsky's revised score of 1947, made, so he said, to reduce the 'wastefully' large orchestra...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/2000

Bax Orchestral Works, Vol 9

So intoxicated was Bax by the dazzling spectacle and artistry of the Ballets Russes during Diaghilev's 1911 Coronation Season at...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2008

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