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Del Monaco-The Singing Volcano

If these are bad films, as they surely are, then at least they are bad in a thoroughly old-fashioned way....

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

Of the opera sets which Callas remade for EMI (Norma and Tosca being the others), Lucia is the one in...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Schumann Symphony No 1

To call a performance “well made” might seem like a half-hearted compliment but in the case of Thomas Dausgaard's account...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2008

Dargomizhsky: Choral & Orchestral Works

The first (and I suppose, for the forseeable future, last) British performance of Dargomizhsky's The Stone Guest in April 1987...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1989

Prokofiev Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 3; Visions Fugitives

At the end of 2000, Calliope issued a fascinating CD in which Yakov Kasman and Emmanuel Leducq-Barome were teamed with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2002

Holmboe Concertos for Piano, Clarinet and Oboe

A word about nomenclature. Holmboe composed 13 chamber concertos between 1939 and 1956 as a series with small-orchestral accompaniment, similar...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2005

Massenet Don Quichotte

At the beginning Don Quichotte looks all set to be Massenet's Falstaff. It was not his final opera, but it...

Reviewed in issue 4/1992

Bach; Mozart; Vivaldi Concertos

One good reason to want this disc is the clear, beautifully balanced and vernally fresh playing of the Mozart; another...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1987

Schoenfield (4) Parables; (4) Souvenirs

If you turned the radio dials and stumbled across Paul Schoenfield’s Four Parables, written in 1983, it would be perfectly...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2007

Puccini Madama Butterfly

After its disastrous La Scala première in 1904‚ Madama Butterfly was hastily revised for its triumphant vindication at Brescia only...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

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