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Mozart: Così fan tutte

Versions of Mozart's opera come tumbling out from the companies. No sooner had I finished considering the Erato/Barenboim version last...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1990

Schnabel plays Brahms

Every now and then one reads of a vintage ‘dream combination’ that posits the distant possibility of an undiscovered recording....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: /2000

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto; Meditation; Romeo & Juliet

The first great merit of this latest version of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is the warm, open sound. Recorded in...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2001

Gerhard Orchestral & Vocal Works

There can be little argument that Gerhard was the most important composer that Spain had produced since Falla; but it...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1994

Cappella Romana - (The) Fall of Constantinople

English-speaking audiences commonly associate Greek Orthodox plainchant with the music of John Tavener, whose work draws substantially from its ethos....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2009

Verdi Macbeth

This was the first integral recording of the work; also notable for the taut, idiomatic and refined conducting of Gardelli,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1994

Bartók Concerto; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta

The timely arrival of the Bernstein reissues has only served to reinforce my reaction to Dutoit's disc. I couldn't possibly...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1988

Psalms of David, Vol.3

One of the first lessons that has to be learnt in psalm-singing is not to gabble away on the reciting-note,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1992

Wordsworth Symphonies Nos 2 and 3

At long last, a Lyrita recording on CD. Welcome and thrice welcome. William Wordsworth is one of the almost forgotten...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

Songs of the British Isles

Linda Finnie won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award in 1974 and the Ferrier Prize at s'Hertogenbosch in 1977, so this...

Reviewed in issue 4/1990

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