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Handel Ariodante

Not many of Handel’s operas – the only other obvious example is Giulio Cesare – involve the listener in the...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1998

Vivaldi Mottetti

These days there is no excuse for not knowing Vivaldi’s sacred music, or at least not being aware of it....

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2003

Tchaikovsky Ballet highlights

What is immediately striking here is the excellent playing of the Minnesota Orchestra in all departments. The wind solos do...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1984

Handel Hercules

Luc Bondy’s Aix-en-Provence production, here captured at a later Paris performance, confirms that Hercules is superb theatre. The grafitti-style opening...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2006

Rossini La donna del lago

Although La donna del lago was written in 1819, towards the end of Rossini's time in Naples, it has little...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1995

Beethoven Piano Sonatas

When these recordings first appeared in the 1970s they met with a degree of critical reserve. Brendel's versions of these...

Reviewed in issue 8/1993

Mozart Violin Concertos, Vol. 2

I much enjoyed Monica Huggett's first disc of Mozart's violin concertos (9/94), and its successor is, if anything, even finer....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/1995

Wagner (Der) Ring des Nibelungen

This new cycle, Opus Arte’s first CD release, was assembled from performances of the current Bayreuth stage production recorded during...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 1/2010

Stanley Organ Voluntaries

The Thomas Thamar organ in Framlingham, formerly in Pembroke College, Cambridge, was built in 1674, and all the Great registers...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1983

Bernstein The Final Concert

While for obvious reasons this wasn't billed as ''The Final Concert'' at the time, there must have been quite a...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 12/1992

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