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Orff Carmina burana

Muti's 1980 LP recording of Carmina burana was widely used as a hi-fi demonstration record when it first appeared; remarkable...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1985

Alarie/Simoneau - Arias & Duets

The final section of the second CD offers some of the most sensuous, finely honed, idiomatic singing of a French...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994

Gibbons Choral and Organ Music

The Oxford Camerata continue their popular series of recordings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English music with this representative selection of...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/1996

Eben Organ Works, Volume 1

Petr Eben has written so much organ music that there’s a risk that he’ll be thought of as interesting mainly...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/2000

Handel (La) Resurrezione

La Resurrezione was the most elaborate entertainment Handel composed during his four-year visit to Italy. The oratorio was commissioned by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2009

Vaughan Williams Orchestral Works

Following their recently acclaimed recording successes with Libor Pesek for Virgin, in works as diverse as Suk's Asrael Symphony, and...

Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 12/1991

Beethoven Piano Sonatas 23, 25 & 32

Reviewing Swartzentruber’s Scarlatti recital‚ also on Solo Records (11/00)‚ I noted playing of an enviable crispness and a definition that...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Monteverdi e il suo Tempo

This is a bold and imaginative compilation of vocal and instrumental music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries that—like Les Arts...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 10/1991

Schumann Piano Works

This is a disc I would immediately reward with a rosette if such things were done at Gramophone. As piano...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1995

Offenbach La Belle Hélène (DVD)

This Zurich production from 1997 fully enters into the spirit of Offenbach’s satirical romp, hardly ever stepping over into farce,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2001

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