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Schütz Symphoniae Sacrae II

Of Schutz’s three volumes entitled Symphoniae sacrae dating from between 1629 and 1650, this is the second complete recording of...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/1997

Verdi Don Carlos

Luc Bondy’s staging of the five-act French version of Verdi’s masterpiece (already on CD; EMI, 10/96) received mixed reviews when...

Reviewed in issue 3/1997

Chopin Piano Works

While it would be idle to pretend that Dame Moura Lympany still commands her former light-fingered grace and brilliance, her...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996

Balfe (The) Maid of Artois

Even with The Bohemian Girl available complete from Decca (8/92R), excerpts on Classics for Pleasure, and a clutch of numbers...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2006

Gershwin Porgy & Bess

After the 1935 Broadway first night of Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin presented part of the autograph score to the...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 12/2006

Brahms Piano Concerto No.2

I suspect there are many people who will want this new recording of Brahms's B flat Piano Concerto as a...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1992

Verdi Aida

This set has always stood – unjustly – in the shadows of its supposedly more classy HMV counterpart (with Giannini...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1996

Albinoni 12 Concertos, Op. 9

For consistently amiable, if undemanding entertainment, Albinoni’s concertos, with or without oboe, or oboes, are hard to beat. Christopher Hogwood...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1999

Martinu Greek Passion

When this Bregenz Festival production of The Greek Passion was re-staged by the Royal Opera a few months ago it...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/2000

Verdi Rigoletto

First we must salute the 64-year-old Leo Nucci’s Rigoletto. Visually, the pathetic figure with the haunted, apprehensive expression will prove...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2008

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