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Sibelius: Orchestral Works

Summing up my reactions to the first in Jukka-Pekka Saraste's projected Sibelius cycle ( RD87765, 11/88), I wondered whether given...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1989

Verdi (La) forza del destino

This performance from Modena comes with all too little information about its provenance, and not a word about the predominantly...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2007

A Due - Clarinet & Cello Works

In 1990 Kriikku and Karttunen decided to create – in one fell swoop – a repertoire for clarinet-and-cello duo where...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2007

Richard Tauber - Opera Recital

This is a must for all Tauber enthusiasts—indeed, for anyone interested in the history of singing on disc—as it houses...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1992

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro (sung in German)

This is another indispensable document rescued from obscurity courtesy of EMI and the Furtwangler Archive (which has private tapes of...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1996

Three Tenors Björling, Gigli & Tauber

We know what 'Three Tenors' means nowadays. The idea behind this collection is to devise an earlier counterpart. So Hyde...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Weber Der Freischütz

This noted 1973 set hasn’t worn that well. Kleiber draws superb playing from the Dresden orchestra and singing from the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1998

Brahms Symphony No.4; Tragic Ov

I heard Muti conduct these two works in London almost ten years ago, when his interpretations seemed only partly formed...

Reviewed in issue 6/1989

Adés America

Back in the late 1990s, when Thomas Adès, as part of the New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messages to the Millennium’, was...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 5/2004

Vivaldi Cello Concertos

Though himself a violinist, Vivaldi nevertheless proved, in 27 cello concertos and nine cello sonatas, that he was able to...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1999

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