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Rossini Il turco in Italia

The Poet Prosdocimo writes: “Is it not enough that I cudgelled my brains to concoct for Mr Rossini this charming...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1998

Mendelssohn (The) Complete String Quartets

At a time when new issues of Mendelssohn quartets seem to arrive every month it’s interesting to be reminded of...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2005

Verdi (La) Forza del Destino

I’m afraid Padre Guardiano’s advice to Alvaro to moderate his language (“Non imprecare”) came two hours too late for me....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2009

Schubert Octet

An intriguing point arises in the second movement. It is meant to be Adagio but the Gaudier pace it fairly...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2003

Grieg Songs

I shall be lucky if I review a more satisfying disc this year. Here we have a singer at the...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1993

Puccini Turandot

It is only a few months since Naxos issued the historic first recording of Turandot, made originally by Cetra in...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/2003

Ferroud Orchestral Works

One suspects that an hour with Pierre-Octave Ferroud would have been time spent in the company of a man bristling...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1998

Verdi Un Ballo In Maschera

This, the last of Karajan’s opera recordings, is one of the most successful of his later contributions to the genre....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1997

Prokofiev & Shostakovich: Cello Works

This is a very different reading of the Shostakovich from that of Ma and Ax on CBS, but it too...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1990

Prokofiev (The) Love for Three Oranges

Here is an Oranges sung in Russian as originally composed, rather than in the (equally authentic) French of the first...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2007

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