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Les Italiens à Paris

This is the most interesting and possibly the most exciting record I have had to review for a long time....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1989

(The) Celtic Viol, Vol 2

In this sequel to their 2009 recording, Jordi Savall and Andrew Lawrence-King are joined by Frank McGuire, bodhrán (Irish frame...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2010

Bizet Carmen

Anyone who has ever seen Carmen performed in Italy will know how well it can go with an Italian cast....

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/1998

Anchieta Missa Sine Nomine

Two trends in presenting Renaissance sacred music on disc have become established. The first – the combination of voices and...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 4/2004

Mozart Clarinet Quintet; String Quartet No 15

Lost autographs raise theories. Back in 1948, George Dazeley surmised that Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Quintet, composed for Anton Stadler,...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2010

Mussorgsky Songs and Dances of Death

Culled from three vintage recitals, these groups of songs show Galina Vishnevskaya, if not in her prime, certainly still in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2003

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande

As John Steane noted, welcoming Glyndebourne’s 1962 Figaro (7/08), that “vintage year” saw the return to Sussex of Carl...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2009

Schulhoff Symphonies

Like many in the lost, inter-war generation of Czech-German composers, Erwin Schulhoff was drawn to a wide range of idioms...

Reviewed in issue 1/1995

Rubbra Orchestral Works

Welcome though it is, particularly at its modest price, the Fourth Symphony has to contend with formidable competition from two...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1997

Pacius (Die) Loreley

More than a curiosity and less than a masterpiece, Fredrik Pacius’s Loreley never established itself in the 19th-century repertoire, and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2004

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