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Ippolitov-Ivanov: Orchestral works

Tchaikovsky took a friendly interest in the young Ippolitov-Ivanov, who had for some years been a pupil of rimsky-Korsakov adn...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985

Wagner The Rhinegold

This reissue (as in the case of the other operas in this series) brought back many happy memories of watching...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992

Haydn String Quartets

I enjoyed these discs with more provisos than in most of the previous issues in the Kodaly's evolving Haydn cycle....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1994

Lunéville Organ

Lavish packaging in the shape of a richly illustrated book detailing the history and design of the 1751 Dupont organ...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2011

Massenet Hérodiade

Opera librettos, like Hollywood films, are notoriously indifferent to the true representation of historical events and cavalier in their treatment...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1986

Sibelius Orchestral Works

Under 45 minutes of music here, but few customers should complain as they listen to such powerful performances of four...

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Wagner Siegfried

Comfortably recorded with a natural pit/stage balance – as were its predecessors in Hamburg’s unfolding live Ring (8/09, 3/10) –...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 13/2011

Szymanowski Harnasie; Mandragora

The Naxos Szymanowski series continues its estimable task of placing relatively familiar major works in appropriate but less familiar contexts....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/2009

Heggie Passing By

Jake Heggie is the kind of composer that musical theatre – and I make no distinction between musicals and opera...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2010

Celibidache and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Regular readers of Gramophone may be surprised to encounter ‘official’ CDs featuring a conductor who compared making records...

Reviewed in issue 2/1998

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