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It is good to have so much of the late-lamented Werner Haas's distinguished Ravel playing together; in fact, these two...
Reviewed in issue 3/1985
It will take quite something to displace James Wood's Amon Ra recording of the Mass Hercules dux Ferrariae from my...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 5/1990
These two additions make no fewer than five versions of the Berlioz cycle now to be had on CD. That...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1985
Berganza's role in Decca's Opera Gala is an exclusively Mozartian one. Here she is, from the Cherubino, Sesto, Fiordiligi (and...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1993
Ashkenazy has made few more distinguished discs as conductor than these Rachmaninov symphony recordings of the early 1980s. They are...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
Of Weill's Brecht collaborations of the late-1920s, the Berliner Requiem is the one hitherto most obviously lacking from the CD...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 4/1992
Except for the B flat movement of 1812, Schubert composed all his music for piano trio towards the end of...
Reviewed in issue 4/1997
On the question of vibrato such as is heard in these records of Pasero's it used to be a matter...
Reviewed in issue 6/1990
The Klemperer recording of K361 does not seem to have been well served by the years. I remember admiring it...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1990
This is classy playing. Ingrid Seifert and Ursula Weiss not only manage to make their violins breathe as one but...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1990
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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