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Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2019
This is not an obvious concerto coupling; but in fact there are at least three others, two of them quite...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019
A Mahler Fourth as insightful and as individual as we have come to expect from this source. How rarely we...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2019
Once in a while a piano recording comes along that really plucks at the heart-strings. Denis Kozhukhin’s compilation of miniatures...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2019
This is not the first time Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, the star sopranos Handel engaged for his London operas...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2019
When Achille De Bassini created the role of Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s I due Foscari in 1844, he was in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019
The great Italian baritone Leo Nucci is one of music’s indestructibles. How else can one explain a 76-year-old holding spellbound...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2019
This production from last year’s Salzburg Festival has much charm but it is fundamentally so wrong-headed that I hardly know...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2019
A spot of research – but not in the regular catalogues – should uncover around half a dozen recordings of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2019
The Merry Widow wasn’t born a billionairess, and before Lehár’s masterpiece was a worldwide smash – and long before it...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2019
Launching a high-end CD player may seem like a brave endeavour in what is increasingly...
'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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