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Beethoven Fidelio

This is a tough, unvarnished reading rather in the vein of the 1957 Fricsay (DG), which I reviewed in May....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993

Rachmaninov Transcriptions

Having recorded a major part of Rachmaninov’s piano music, Ashkenazy continues with the piano transcriptions, a cornucopia of teasing sophistication...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002

Brossard Petits Motets

Sebastien de Brossard is primarily noted as a distinguished collector of music, urbane priest and the compiler of the first...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2000

Cavalli La Didone

For much of its early history Italian opera is little more than the history of the libretto. The repertory itself...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 1/1999

Schubert Piano Works

Liszt – a shrewd and generous critic – saw Schubert as “the most poetic of all composers”. Such brief tribute...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1996

Frank Martin In terra pax/The Four Elements

Sometime in 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, Swiss Radio approached Frank Martin with a commission for...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1996

Liszt Piano Works, Vol.18

At the opera Liszt is well-known, as two discs in Leslie Howard's mammoth cycle have already reaffirmed. At the theatre,...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1993

Zimmermann, A (3) Symphonies

Anton Zimmermann (1741-81) spent his career as an organist and composer in cities across the areas we now know as...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2006

Prokofiev Symphony No 5

This, the first new record from the Leningrad Philharmonic to appear for some time, was made in Dublin last October....

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1988

Campra Choral Works

About six years ago, the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, with the support of Radio France, joined forces with...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1999

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