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Donizetti Maria Stuarda

The role of Leicester in this opera must be dramatically one of the most ineffectual in the tenor repertoire; he...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2003

Works for Clarinet and Piano

Since my only reservation about this excellent recital is a minor one, I'd better get it out of the way...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990

Brahms Complete Songs, Vol 2

An upbeat Brahms Lieder recital is doubtless a contradiction in terms. But, as in the first volume of Hyperion’s latest...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2011

Schumann Songs, Vol 10

The prime attraction for many here will be English soprano-of-the-moment Kate Royal in the popular Eichendorff Liederkreis, dubbed by the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2008

Brahms Piano Concert 1/Lieder op.91

Stephen Kovacevich's new EMI recording of Brahms's D minor Piano Concerto with the LPO under Wolfgang Sawallisch strikes me as...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1992

Sibelius Night Ride and Sunrise

Here’s further proof that Pietari Inkinen is a young conductor with confidence and talent to spare. As on this partnership’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2009

Schubert Symphony 9

A cleanly executed reading of classical proportions. Intelligently conceived, too—Slatkin does vary the tempos in the first movement, but not...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1990

Sibelius Pelleas and Melisande

Don’t let the low opus number hoodwink you: Cassazione in fact dates from 1904 and was first given under Sibelius’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2000

Alemdar Karamanov Symphonies Nos 20 and 23

Here is yet another ex-‘non’-Soviet symphonist who if nothing else has a distinctive character profile. Alemdar Karamanov was born in...

Reviewed in issue 12/1996

Koechlin (Les) Heures Persanes

Les Heures Persanes (‘The Persian hours’) evokes a two-month journey through Persia in 1900, but not by Koechlin (who never...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2003

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