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Vivaldi (The) Four Seasons

It’s no surprise that Julia Fischer, with her looks of classic beauty, has been treated to a video début, but...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2002

Mozart Violin Sonatas, K526 & K547

I've now heard two records in this series and enjoyed neither of them as much as I'd hoped. The production...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1986

Beethoven; Sibelius; Tchaikovsky Nobel Prize 2010

The Nobel Prize Concert is now a traditional element of the modern Award celebrations, given on December 8 each year,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 9/2011

Jenkins Consort Music for Viols

The four hundredth anniversary of the birth of the composer John Jenkins is celebrated this year by Jordi Savall and...

Reviewed in issue 2/1992

Veldhuis Paradiso

Devised as a ‘video oratorio’ and first presented in Groningen in September 2001 (on which occasion this live recording was...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/2003

Puccini La Bohème

Anyone who knows that there is much more to La boheme than voices will want to hear Bernstein's account of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1988

Lisa della Casa: Salzburg Festival 1957

This CD brings back happy memories of della Casa’s rare recitals at London’s Royal Festival Hall in the 1950s. Probably...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1998

Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer

The ways of record companies are sometimes puzzling. This set was recorded three years ago just at the time Decca...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1997

Liszt A Faust Symphony

Giuseppe Sinopoli projects Liszt’s “Mephistopheles” with such unrelenting urgency that he could as well be fighting the devil in person....

Reviewed in issue 7/1996

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

Geoffrey Horn did not like the sound of the digitally re-mastered Ashkenazy CD listed above, nor was he inclined to...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1984

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