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Tan Dun Ghost Opera

A half-hour spent with Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera brings us face-to-face with the past, the present and ‘forever’ by employing,...

Reviewed in issue 7/1997

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Here are twin couplings of Mussorgsky’s original piano version and Ravel’s fascinating and resourceful orchestration. Yet it is a curious...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996

Haydn Piano Trios

Only quite recently have period-instrument performers given much attention, as far as recording is concerned, to the Haydn piano trios....

Reviewed in issue 6/1995

Mozart & Schubert String Quartets

Since the players' names are omitted from the new CD I think it important to point out that this is...

Reviewed in issue 6/1987

Meyerbeer (Les) Huguenots

Revivals of Les Huguenots are sufficiently few and far between to provide on each occasion an opportunity to react and...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2004

Offenbach (Le) Financier et le Savatier

Offenbach composed Le financier et le savetier for the opening of the 1856‑57 season at his own theatre, Les Bouffes-Parisiens....

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/2007

Bach St Matthew Passion

If we ignore the sweeping generalizations and fatuous remarks contained in various accompanying essays – “Telemann, Handel and Hasse... remain...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1996

Borodin Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Romances

As ever, Rozhdestvensky has plenty to tell us about the music. He approaches both symphonies with a keen ear for...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Escenas Argentinas

The twin pillars of 20th-century Argentinian music are Ginastera and Piazzolla, the first the embodiment of Classical rigour, the other’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2004

Haydn Piano Sonatas

It’s good to see such a gifted, high-profile young pianist as Leif Ove Andsnes tackling Haydn, whose sonatas still tend...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1999

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