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Vienna State Opera Live, Vol. 8

Here is further proof that Ilitsch was an astonishing Aida, undertaking the part here some 15 months before her 1942...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1995

Soirée française

These days Elly Ameling can be relied on to give us more interesting programmes on record than any of her...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1987

Brahms (Ein) Deutsches Requiem

Sung by a small choir of young and expert voices, Brahms’s reduction of the Requiem for piano duet offers the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 5/2010

Wagner Die Walküre: Act 1

This recording was made at a concert performance at the Berlin State Opera as long ago as 1993. Presumably it...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1999

Honegger Symphony 2 etc

Most rivals offer the Symphony for strings with one of the other symphonies (Karajan and Jansons with the Liturgique) or...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1999

Liszt Works for Piano & Orchestra

The E flat Concerto sets off promisingly to a pert, full-bodied orchestral introduction and a bold response from Berezovsky. Teldec’s...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

Handel: Arias for Montagnana

Antonio Montagnana, a Venetian, sang bass parts for Handel, and for Handel's London rivals, during the 1730s. He created a...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1990

Mozart Symphonies

Apart from a record of Handel's Water Music on the Cirrus label and accompanying Andrew Marriner and Yoshiyuki Nakamishi in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1988

Bruckner Symphony No 5. Symphony No 9 (finale)

Even putting aside recordings by conductors like Knappertsbusch and Matacic (Denon) who have used cut and altered texts, Bruckner's Fifth...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1989

R.Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30 etc

Decca are celebrating Solti’s 50 years of loyal service with a number of releases including this glitzily-packaged offering of Strauss...

Reviewed in issue 5/1997

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