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R Strauss Josephslegende

That Richard Strauss wrote a ballet for Diaghilev is something that tends to be forgotten. The neglect of Josephs-Legende was...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2000

Bach Concertos

Enrapt by an infectious and consistent conceit of gravitas, this unusual quartet of Bach concerto transcriptions presents one of the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2006

Penderecki Works for Cellos and Orchestra

Penderecki’s Sonata for cello and orchestra (1964) embodies his transition from the turbulent texturalism of his earliest works to the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2008

Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch

Wolf himself stated that the Italian Songbook is ''the most original and artistically consummate of all my works'' and he...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1990

Mozart Arias

RCA seem on a roll with their operatic recitals. Here is another outright recommendation from that stable with the greatly...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997

Savall Edition, Volume 14

Some months back Astree reissued 20 CDs as part of a ‘Jordi Savall Edition’ celebrating the amazingly diverse recorded repertoire...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2000

Puccini Madama Butterfly

For so popular an opera Butterfly has been meanly treated on CD so far, but in every way except one...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1987

Mozart (Die) Zauberflöte

This Zurich staging of 2000 (why is this theatre so much favoured on DVD?) is a facsimile of Jonathan Miller’s...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Toscanini and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London

It hardly seems credible that with all the commentary that has been written about Beethoven and Toscanini's view of him,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

It is a pity that Richard Goode begins the C minor Sonata with such an excessively clipped statement of the...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

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