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Mozart (Die) Zauberflöte

This somewhat controversial staging opened earlier this year to a mixed reception. It treats the ever-elusive work very seriously indeed,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2003

Mozart Orch/Inst/Choral/Operatic Works

If we are right to celebrate or commemorate the major anniversaries of the great musicians, and surely we are, the...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1990

Kapell in recital

What remarkable talent is shown by the 14-year-old Kapell in his incomplete reading of Beethoven’s Third Concerto. That brilliance, allied...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/1998

Alan Rawsthorne: Orchestral and Chamber Works

Perhaps because of its serious demeanour, Alan Rawsthorne's music has always been something of a minority interest. Today, 14 years...

Reviewed in issue 9/1985

Brahms Symphony 1

There is, as yet, no completely recommendable Brahms First on CD and this new version from Paita does not greatly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1986

Rutter I My Best Loved's Am

In an introductory note, the composer welcomes this, 'the first major recording of my choral music from a German-based choir'....

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002

D. Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas

It has been a whole year since the first disc of Staier's Scarlatti series (which figured in my most recent...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1993

Field Piano Sonatas

The three sonatas that make up John Field's Op. 1 were written around the turn of the nineteenth century, when...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1990

C.P.E. Bach Sonatas

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's three sonatas for viola da gamba must be among the very last solo pieces outside France...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1993

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

Now that Kenneth Gilbert's admirable recording of these works (8/86) seems to have been withdrawn, Suzuki's chief rival, so far...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/2000

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