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Maria Jeritza (1887-1982)

It is a pity Jeritza did not sing in the age of video opera. As all accounts and photographs testify,...

Reviewed in issue 4/1994

Shostakovich Complete Piano Works

Virtually all of Shostakovich’s piano music is assembled here, the only missing items being bits of juvenilia that the new...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2007

Lehár (Die) lustige Witwe

That Jérôme Savary is director of this Christmas 2007 Dresden production should provide due warning that this is no traditional...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 13/2008

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.28

''Liszt's Marches have not so much had an unfair press as no press at all.'' So Howard affirms in his...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1995

Haydn Complete Symphonies, Vol.11

Like previous instalments in Hänssler’s Haydn cycle, these superbly recorded performances of five symphonies from the years c1768 to 1776...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2008

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.43

Volume 43 of Leslie Howard’s Herculean undertaking completes the Annees de pelerinage (he has already recorded the first volume with...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1997

Ravel Chamber & Vocal Works

The Nash Ensemble have recorded all four of these works before, the purely instrumental ones on CD with the same...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1994

Schubert (Die) schöne Müllerin

To celebrate Fischer-Dieskau’s 80th birthday, Austrian Television, with the performers’ consent, has issued this film made at the 1991 Schubertiade....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2005

Bach Mass in B minor, BWV232

Following the conventional trappings of Helmuth Rilling's fourth account, reviewed last month, Frieder Bernius gives us a Mass which neither...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2007

Bizet/Serebrier Carmen Symphony

As he explains in a lively booklet-note, José Serebrier has been dissatisfied for years with the conventional orchestral suites drawn...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2004

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