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Rossini Heroines

The subtitle of this fine recital disc by Cecilia Bartoli is ''arias composed for Isabella Colbran: Rossini's primissima donna''. Colbran...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1992

Poulenc Sacred Choral Works

We seem to be in danger of becoming spoilt by the number of fine recordings of Poulenc’s a cappella religious...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1996

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5

I have always been puzzled as to why very early Decca LP recordings often have such a thin sound, for...

Reviewed in issue 9/1990

Chopin Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Chopin's concertos are hardly without their justifiably celebrated and recorded champions, and whether you warm to Argerich's volatility, or Perahia's...

Reviewed in issue 6/1995

Elgar The Dream of Gerontius

I wish this had been the run-through, and the Naxos team had then thrown off their inhibitions and given us...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1997

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro

This reissue has me in two minds. It has the benefit of Fricsay's well-known, crisp, resolute, finely detailed and honed...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994

20th Century Orchestral Works

This is a most welcome and useful compilation. In his review of I Musici's account of the Martin Etudes when...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1991

Shostakovich Piano Quintet; String Quartets Nos 7 & 8

From the very beginning of the Piano Quintet it is obvious that this is to be a performance on a...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1985

Verdi Simon Boccanegra

On November 5th, 1955, the Vienna State Opera returned to its restored home, damaged in the war. The opera was...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1999

Jennifer Larmore - Bravura Diva

Jennifer Larmore has many enterprising solo discs to her name. To date this is the most impressive of all, not...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2005

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