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Verdi Don Carlo

From the day that Giulini conducted the now legendary production of Don Carlo at Covent Garden in 1958, a recording...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2000

Nyman Works for 2 Pianos

Michael Nyman was 60 on March 23. As he is one of contemporary music’s most well-known, popular and commercially successful...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 7/2004

Liszt Piano Works

As his two previous Nimbus discs (3/95 and 7/95 – the latter including a fine performance of Liszt’s Dante Sonata)...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1996

Chopin Piano Works

The last few months have brought us several new versions of Chopin's Scherzos, not forgetting one from Ivan Moravec (Dorian)...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1992

O Magnum Mysterium

This compilation of unaccompanied choral music is a tribute to Robert Shaw, one of the world’s great choir trainers. He...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2001

Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri

Composed in 1680, this group of seven tiny cantatas – each meditating on a part of Christ’s body (feet, knees,...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 6/2001

Fröst and Friends

This disc not only presents the brilliant Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst in a dazzling range of encore pieces but, with...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2010

Wagner (Die) Meistersinger von Nürnberg

The British have taken Wagner’s Mastersingers to their hearts ever since Hans Richter’s premiering of the work in London and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 8/2008

Marenzio Motets

Marenzio was the Schubert of the madrigal, as Denis Arnold once wrote, though these sober motets reveal little of the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1999

Pärt Johannes-Passion

Viewed superficially, there would seem to be very little room in Part’s exceedingly long-breathed Passio for individualised interpretation. You open...

Reviewed in issue 7/2001

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