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Joyce DiDonato - (The) Deepest Desire

Joyce DiDonato has made some terrific records over the past few years, including a delicious programme of Handel duets Virgin...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 2/2006

Milhaud Chamber Symphonies

It could be argued from this disc that (as some of us have long suspected) with his fatal facility, which...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1998

Beethoven Triple Concerto; Piano Concerto, Op 61.

True to form, Naxos have come up trumps with an imaginative and useful coupling. How often, I wonder, must collectors...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Bellini (I) Puritani

Although I Puritani was performed during the Metropolitan Opera’s first season in 1883 (with Marcella Sembrich), it had not been...

Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 3/2008

Rameau Les indes galantes

Two previous recordings of Les Indes galantes, Rameau's first opera-ballet, did scant justice to this kaleidoscopically colourful work. Jean-Claude Malgoire...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1992

Brahms/Schoenberg Works for Strings

Anything conducted by Sandor Vegh can be guaranteed to have spontaneity, even a sense of living dangerously, and there is...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1992

Bruckner Symphony No. 7

Sir Georg Solti last recorded this symphony with the VPO (Decca SET323/4, 10/66—nla). My memory is of a performance which,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1988

Brun Symphony No 8

There are long symphonies and long symphonies. Bruckner and Mahler place you at the epicentre of their worlds, and wherever...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2009

I. Nielsen - operatic recital

This review is in the nature of a lament. It seems today that, whereas we have any number of accomplished...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1986

Distance & Enchantment Chamber Works by Judith Weir

Judith Weir's music is not simplistic, nor does it ape any style from the past, and it is not in...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995

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