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Gregorian Chant

When in 1930 Solesmes, under Dom Gajard, produced their album of 12 records of Gregorian chant, it was a historic...

Reviewed in issue 6/1995

Liszt/Ravel/Schumann Works for Piano and Orchestra

Delight and frustration for admirers of this most photogenic and cinegenic (if the word exists) of pianists. Any chance to...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Wagner Tristan und Isolde

Back in April (Opera reissues) Alan Blyth was welcoming the first ‘official’ CD issue of this legendary Tristan, known previously...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2003

Purcell Twelve Sonnatas in Three Parts

With Purcell's first (and, during his lifetime, only) published set of trio sonatas, London Baroque conclude the third leg of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/1994

Janácek The Cunning Little Vixen

Janáček's woodland comedy has had two very successful Supraphon recordings before, under Vaclav Neumann and under Bohumil Gregor; but the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/1982

Monteverdi Madriglai guerieri ed amorosi

One of the most popular of last year’s Gramophone Award-winners was Harmonia Mundi’s issue of the complete Selva morale of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/2003

Ireland Piano Works, Vol. 3

Here is the third and final instalment in Eric Parkin's second recorded survey of John Ireland's piano oeuvre. As the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1995

Schönberg Verklärte Nacht; Chamber Symphony No 1

Back in the heyday of LP, Zubin Mehta recorded both these works for Decca with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1/68,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/2004

Handel Heroic Arias

This recording was made to celebrate countertenor James Bowman's twenty-fifth anniversary in the business: it hardly seems possible that he...

Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 12/1991

Nellie Melba sings Opera Arias & Songs

Paradoxes, anomalies, revaluations: gramophone history is full of them. In 'real' history, to judge by contemporary accounts and people's memories,...

Reviewed in issue 3/1989

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