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Bach/Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues

Olli Mustonen here confirms his reputation as a restlessly creative and technically brilliant pianist. His 1990 Shostakovich and Alkan debut...

Reviewed in issue 3/1999

Puccini (La) Bohème

This recording received a complimentary review from John Steane when it appeared in LaserDisc format back in May 1993. I...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2000

Kurtág Játékok - excs

Recording a complete edition of György Kurtág’s Játékok is no small undertaking: the combined eight volumes comprise myriad pieces of...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2006

Strauss, R Salomé

With the ink barely dry on his salacious new opera, Strauss started adapting its vocal lines to the eccentric French...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2008

Lassus: Chansons, Motets, Madrigals and Lieder

This surely represents the King's Singers at their very best. They are equally at home in the French, the Italian...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1988

Rossini Il Turco in Italia

It was Maria Callas who, with Franco Zeffirelli, helped restore this sophisticated—delectable but faintly disturbing—dramma buffo to the stage of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1987

Visée Suites de danses

De Visee was a multi-instrumentalist and composer, a favourite of King Louis XIV of France. Though his music is in...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 9/1999

Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty (The)

David Brown, Tchaikovsky’s eminent biographer, thought that on balance The Sleeping Beauty was the finest of the three great ballet...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2002

Spanish Gypsies - Celtic and Spanish Music in Shakespeare's England

The subtitle of this album says more about its content than does the main one. There is much titular reference...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2000

Gershwin Porgy and Bess (highlights)

This famous compilation was/is nothing if not a Price vehicle: a tantalizing sample of her legendary Bess and the luxury,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1989

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