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American Elegies

This is a carefully composed anthology, even a concept album, designed and conducted by John Adams. He and the producer,...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1991

Schuster Demofoonte

Few recordings of hitherto obscure 18th-century operas have been as convincing as this. Joseph Schuster (1748-1812) was the son of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2003

Italian Songs, Volume 1-Bellini

This is announced as the first volume in a new series of discs devoted to Italian song, and there could...

Reviewed in issue 9/1997

Anthology of Czech Piano Works, Vol. 3

There are 36 pieces here, most of them less than two minutes long, so the collection is rather too bitty...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1993

Handel Organ Concertos

I seem to have missed this when it first appeared in 1968. Since then Simon Preston has made his celebrated...

Reviewed in issue 11/1987

Villa-Lobos: guitar works

It would make the collector's life a lot easier if guitarists did not so often permutate their programmes like hopefully...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1987

Vivaldi Orlando furioso

Vivaldi’s opera combines magic, heroism and comedy to tell of a seductive sorceress, a noble knight driven insane by love,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2005

Dvorák Symphony No. 8; Carnival

An excellent bargain version of a favourite Dvorak symphony which again demonstrates Enrique Batiz's gift for bringing a performance alive...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1985

Beethoven Symphony No 6

Carlos Kleiber, so Lillian Kleiber’s note assures us, has conducted Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony on only one occasion, in Munich’s National...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2004

Bax Winter Legends; Saga Fragment

Almost any 90-second fragment of Bax's Winter Legends, heard at random, will persuade you that it must be one of...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1987

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