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Mozart Don Giovanni

Calixto Bieito’s staging of Mozart’s opera buffa caused something close to apoplexy among the more conservative daily newspapers when it...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2006

Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Works, Vol.2

This second volume of orchestral works by Rimsky-Korsakov from Olympia (I reviewed the first in February) is probably most interesting...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1989

Bach Orchestral Suites

A guest appearance of Frans Bruggen with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has produced this new recording of...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1997

Kuhn Missa Brevis

If Kuhn’s vocal pieces – the motet Der Mensch lebt und bestehet and the Missa brevis, with its ever-present, occasionally...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 8/1999

Graupner Harpsichord Works

This third volume of Graupner’s keyboard works contains much that is charming, inventive, and even surprising on occasion. The opening...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2004

Atterberg Symphony No 9

Having rattled off six symphonies by the time he was 40, the remaining 47 years of Atterberg’s life saw just...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2003

Felicity Lott s'amuse d'Offenbach à Poulenc

The two Maurices, Delage and Jaubert, were not at all alike, but their music contrasts and complements in this fascinating...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 5/1997

Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana

Andante sostenuto says the score on the subject of the Prelude, and 'Not half' devoutly responds the listener sitting down...

Reviewed in issue 12/1990

Skalkottas (36) Greek Dances; (The) Return of Ulysses

The (one hopes) eventually comprehensive survey of Nikos Skalkottas on BIS has now arrived at a work central to his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 8/2003

Liszt Piano Works

Here is a demanding Liszt recital indeed, ranging through the B minor Sonata – his most Himalayan challenge – to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996

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