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Butt, E (The) Waiting Room OST

The Waiting Room has been biding its time, waiting for a general release since it was premiered at the 2007...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2008

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - The Unpublished EMI Recordings(1946-52)

Good heavens!, I hear you cry, what need for more Schwarzkopf when there’s already a heap of her recordings available,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1999

Karlowicz Episode at a Masquerade; Returning Waves

With this third disc the BBC Philharmonic complete a fine survey of Karlowicz’s orchestral music (excepting the Violin Concerto, recorded...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2006

Korngold Lieder

The earliest of Korngold's Einfache Lieder ( ''Simple Songs'') were written when he was 14, and you can easily hear...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1985

Schumann Legendary Song Cycles

''Legendary Song Cycle Recordings'' is the misleading title of this oddly fashioned disc. I cannot believe that Lehmann's Frauenliebe, for...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994

Hewitt plays Handel and Haydn

Isn’t it odd to lump Handel with Haydn? Not for Haydn who, like Beethoven, thought Handel the greatest composer of...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2009

Rossini L'italiana in Algeri

Rossinians must count themselves lucky as they are showered with more and more goodies both in the opera-house and on...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1998

Mozart Horn Works

It was a clever idea to put together an all-Mozart disc which comprises an early solo performance by Dennis Brain,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Holst Choral Works

This collection draws the eye by its title: The evening watch, an unaccompanied eight-part motet for mixed choir with two...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990

R. Strauss Tone Poems

Karajan's earlier DG recording has long held sway and up to now would be my preferred ver-sion in spite of...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1984

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